I can't say I don't have this problem, but the reality is that really is a non-issue regarding piracy.

It comes down to two things actually: procrastination and unnecessary use of your resources. Meaning, you should just start what actually gets you interested, and move on. And instead of data hoarding tons of media, try to consume what you have first instead.

Yet Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and pretty much any other browser (Chromium or Gecko) allow you to use uBlock if you want, even if they have their own built in.

That's United States of America. The country of free speech, and the land of opportunities. The democracy every country should strive for!

He is basically saying that they knew what scammers (not pirates, literal scammers) were doing to their consumers, and they not just allowed it, but incentivized them to scam people by selling them legit boxes. Or, in other words, they straight up made a partnership with scammers, becoming scammers themselves, in order to profit from the whole scheme. That's actually fucked up! And the article title is a hell of a reality bending.

I can't say I understand the expectations of the head of these gaming studios nowadays. I mean, I know they are toxic as hell, but even then... The game has just released to justify layoffs. If anything, they should've vetted the project from the very beginning (at least I don't see the point of a new remaster of Halo CE, specially after a suppose rebranding).

I will wait the inevitable expansion DLC, hoping they will also take the opportunity to fix the game performance. And even then, I will probably still wait for a sale (at least for the base game), specially considering it uses Denuvo (which I strongly oppose).

I dare say that games are preserved more through digital means then by physical media though. You have plenty of sites keeping different versions of a number of games, old or new, without any form of DRM (or bypassed) on PC (through "piracy", as ironic as it may sound).

Physical media nowadays are mostly a form of DRM anyway - a disc that will only work on a certain system, and that usually requires you to go online to activate it anyway, which means that they won't work after a couple of decades (or even much earlier). The biggest advantage of it, imo, is the freedom of selling/buying or trading used copies.

Torrents, Alternative Streaming Sites, IPTV, Debrid... the options are plenty enough. In other words: Fuck streaming subscriptions.

I know others already answered you, but I just wanted to explain further. That's the main advantage of Lemmy: being federated. It means that each instance, even though they communicate with each other, is independent (they have their own rules, their own userbase, and are hosted in their own servers), which means that, even if one decides to ban people for using Tor, others wouldn't follow through. Dbzer0 wouldn't punish you for it though.

Ever since they announced the 'new' Reddit, it was pretty obvious the old Reddit would be killed eventually. It's taking even longer than I actually believed.

Now, the funny thing about it, is the typical hypocrisy surrounding these American companies. First it didn't just allowed, it fully embraced the scraping and AI bots, and now they call it 'bad behavior' and want to prohibit it just so they can be the sole people to use it there (or to charge other companies to allow them to do that).

And maybe I'm being naive, but it feels to me that Reddit is slowly digging it's own grave. I don't believe that there's actually that many people using it nowdays, when pretty much all discussions there are either a) toxic people, full of themselves, fighting over stupid brands and predatory companies; b) stupid memes; c) bots faking they're not bots, or ads faking they're not ads; and d) information that has already been scraped or that was written by AI bots, or that just doesn't hold any real value anymore.

Reddit used, a long time ago, to be a place where actual useful information was posted and good wikis or megathreads were created, curating these information (even though you actually had to some digging to get there sometimes). Nowadays it's an echo chamber of the most useless shit internet has to offer, and all the good data has been moved or copied to somewhere else. But that's what happens when you start to treat the same users that built the whole value of the platform as collateral trash.

For now, yes. But these companies change their strategies all the fucking time. As soon as they see their "only on Playstation" strategy is not giving them the expected return, I am sure they're gonna backflip, again.

Microsoft and Sony (and pretty much any other big corporation in the game business) are not reliable in the slightest - the only difference between them right now is the amount of power they have.

I find it both amusing and shocking that we still have 'fanboys' up to this day, when these companies themselves can't even maintain a solid long term strategy. All they care about is making maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else, so their 'promises' hold no weight at all.

Since I use it only eventually instead of running 24/7 I like Surfshark. If I'm not mistaken it's under Netherlands jurisdiction, which makes it much more trustworthy than USA VPN providers. It also has good cost benefit and good performance overall.

I never looked into it too deeply though. But as I said, for sporadic use I am definitely satisfied.