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ward2k,

No offence but isn’t a very similar policy about banning end-to-end encryption also in talk in the EU

Absolutely don’t agree with it, will be the beginning of the end for privacy but this is more of a European wide (and even world wide) push for a close to e2e encryption

ward2k,

privacytools.io is no longer the recommended one since the mod/domain owner split a long while ago, it now heavily endorses ads (such as nordvpn) you instead should use

www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

Brave still is a great browser just disable a few settings as recommended in the guide

ward2k,

In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these

A lot of server owners won’t and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it’s users

ward2k,

Honestly if you’re using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly

ward2k,

Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldn’t want to touch them personally

There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc

Meta isn’t just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers

ward2k,

Yes at one point they were bundling crypto miners within their releases, I’m not too sure if they still do however there’s a lot of trust and reputation within the Piracy community

Also the fact they’ve done it once makes it very possible for them to do it again (though I’ve got no idea if they even stopped bundling malware and cryptominers)

1337x demoted them at one point for their shady practices

ward2k,

I think it’s worth mentioning the most of players of Infinite don’t play it through steam but rather through gamepass on PC

The vast majority of players are also on Xbox, Steam metrics are a pretty terrible view in this instance

ward2k,

Sure but Online dropped first for free so people were happy to pick it up on Steam

The campaign release was later and was included within GamePass so people made the switch then, in fact there was a large drop in Steam numbers the month after the release of Campaign likely due to people swapping over to GamePass

I’m not denying a loss in player count across all services, that absolutely has happened (and to a degree is expected to happen no game maintains the peak players) i’m saying that Steam metrics are very poor for tracking Microsoft releases

Sea of thieves has lost around 66% of average players compared to 2020 on Steam despite the fact it actually has a much larger active player count now (Though of course less than the 2021 peak)

ward2k,

The wiki on r/piracy is just the megathread, as far as I know they’re one and the same

ward2k,

I do kind of think Reddit will be very hesitant about assigning mods to piracy subreddits since it might look like them encouraging piracy

In all honesty in surprised Reddit hasn't been more heavy handed removing subs like these

ward2k,

I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible

At some point they're going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it's better to make the switch earlier rather than later

I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens "they'll just make a new sub" missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again

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