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Advertisements suck and no regular person would ever advocate for seeing more of them. Enshittification is also out of control and ad-free services you pay a subscription for are more and more sneaking in ads where they can. This combination of facts is why I am a deranged data hoarder with self-hosted solutions wherever possible.

I just really really hate ads. If I had a Roku and this change rolled out to me I’d probably flip.

I mean, the Adobe website flashed me pop-ups about not being in the right location, about cookies - I would choose GIMP based on this.

I choose FOSS 90% of the time because they are not beholden to the same conventions that compel most for-profit products. A lot of the concerns I’m reading about readability, marketability, etc ring absolutely true for life-or-death for-profit ventures, but there are definitely people who don’t mind missing all of that stuff in exchange for good and decent software.

The goal, after all, is to be image editing software, not an advertisement.

This sounds like something I put on my resume to get a coding job, but I’m not actually a coder.

It’d work, too.

steam is a monopoly almost entirely on merit, they’ve done little to no market manipulation to get into this position. the solution is to encourage competitors to offer similar features and not force steam to bend over backwards allowing game transfers or what have you. game transfers which people largely won’t utilize because they’re already no leaving steam, giving them additional options to leave steam won’t do anything.

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