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Hey wait! That’s capitalism!

They switched their backend and you might need to clear your DNS cache in order for it to resolve properly

Ventoy is awesome, +1

Whoosh

Communism is when you own nothing lol

No no, they have proprietary methods of aggregating install data so they will know.

Thanks. I’ll take a few and leave a few: …,

Depending on how long the backlash can stick around, I would expect to see it go down with a large exodus. In particular, if Microsoft gets upset about the impact it could have to gamepass. Unity does seem to be backtracking, but it really feels like they overextended on purpose to make the actual result feel less shitty

Yeah, I did read it. Doesn’t mean he didn’t know that there would be backlash

You think they just suddenly came up with this model? No shit they have to jump through hoops. That doesn’t stop them from doing it in advance of something like this

So he sells a bunch of shares right before the announcement that is likely going to tank their stock price

If we could only use some sort of… identifier to know when a game has been installed… like some kind of… serial number or key that is unique per copy…

The original announcement stated it was retroactive

Just be rich and pay the extra yearly fee so you don’t gotta pay as much per install. Duh

TikTok does a few things that are on the more malicious side. Obfuscating code is a sign that they don’t want people reading into what the app actually does.

It is popular, but so is TEMU. And eBay.

I don’t use TikTok often, and it is not allowed to run in the background. I will never install TEMU.

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I was replying to the claim of “voluntarily installing some of the worst spyware”.

TikTok isn’t great, but it’s hardly the “worst spyware”.

Here is a comparison of actual spyware threats and different apps.

Here is the report itself regarding TEMU and how it actually IS spyware.

Have never had a popup ad like this. Maybe because I have all of that stuff turned off?

Seems like an oddly specific reason to run Linux on your personal machines tho.

There are tons of other issues that are far more relevant and affect more users than simple windows store popup ads that most people don’t seem to get.

Oh thanks