Don’t we all.

I think this meme would work better in reverse lol

Plus folks of similar mental capability refrained from voting in the first place, when they could have prevented this.

Except drivers are designed to interact with hardware and to make it usable, kernel-level anticheats are designed to specifically scan/block/etc software. They are pretty different with their intended purposes, even though they offer the same/similar invasiveness.

I guess what I’m saying is if this information was being sent across a network, that would be detectable.

If you are constantly monitoring 24/7/365, sure. We don’t know how often it would send it if it does, it would require reverse engineering and intense monitoring. Also, even if they aren’t doing it now doesn’t mean they can’t easily add it in a patch.

It’s generally not worth trusting IMO.

Well that sucks. I haven’t bought an XPS since the Dell XPS 15z like over a decade ago, but still, the idea that I could buy an XPS Developer Edition laptop and have it be Linux compatible without having to think about it was nice. Now I’m limited to ThinkPads and System76 plus whatever other compatible Clevos there are or maybe a Framework, which I guess is fine since I do own multiple ThinkPads.

Still, really weird decision.

I’m thinking this lawsuit will be more about how they wronged creators, and less about how they wronged customers. I don’t expect there to be any justice or concern for the customers who were wronged. Therefore, I agree with TAG, I would worry that them losing would set a bad precedent, and possibly make it so that tampering with referral codes, tracking links, etc isn’t allowed anymore because it hurts creators and sellers/companies, and thus that could outlaw adblockers entirely by extension which would not be great.

That’s like worst-case scenario, though, I don’t necessarily expect that to happen, but I think it’s possible.

That’s why I love Ubuntu/Mint too.

It’s boring stable.

I’ve been tempted to try out other distros, but honestly, when it works as well as it does for me, it’s too hard for me to give it up for something that might not be as stable of an experience.

Yes, it sounds like they were violating GPL.

I would agree with you about the frequency illusion effect IF it weren’t something very specific and niche.

It is literally a thing that happens.

I have worked for an advertising company before (they hid that they were an advertising company) and you would be surprised how sophisticated and scummy ads can be.

I’ve literally seen advertisements for products that I was talking about but explicitly did not search for or type or anything on any device. All I did was talk about it in real life.

It’s literally a thing that happens, I have seen it happen first-hand.

True, that’s a good point, they likely try to make as much money as possible in as many different ways.

I feel like the majority of DE developers are just back-end developers, which like, of course that’s not going to be a great user experience lol

I thought they made it from selling user data.

Well, presumably people are in the gym because they’re signing up, then they proceed to not show up for the rest of the year lol

Truest thing I’ve ever seen lmao

Maybe but my bed is comfier lol

“Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets.”

I’d either go take a nap, or go hide in my basement. Not sure which.

Minecwaft!!!