DebatableRaccoon

Ahh yes, the ol’ complete lack of nuance. A game isn’t good so it has to be bad.

Seems the stupidity is contagious around these parts considering you go on to showcase situations of nuance. Engage brain please.

Downloads ≠ good

People are choosing to pirate them instead of pay for them and support the developer/publisher. ‘Good enough to play for free’ is also a statement.

That and a general lack of availability of manga in the west. English releases are often years behind the Japanese ones, if they get brought over at all. It’s why there are so many translation groups.

Time to play whack-a-mole. And the moles are pissed.

I think it just comes down to habit and wanting to keep things simple. The adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” exists for a reason, after all. I never even bothered going as far as to trying block the ads. They suddenly appeared for me one day but would never render, the panels just kept flashing at me. It might have been while looking up a fix - I can’t remember - but it was around that time that I also heard about the undisclosed mining issue so I quickly jumped ship. Been happily using qbittorrent ever since and now wouldn’t really be able to swap again thanks to finding a proper dark mode theme for it. So few others seem to have it and I have no idea what I’m doing with theme creation.

Which is the “only decent alternative”?

I honestly couldn’t say how long. I know I was late to the party on knowing what was going on but even I moved on from it a long time ago now.

Then enjoy. It just isn’t for a lot of people. You have helped as a statistic to the original question though.

Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.

It’s not bad but it’s pretty bare. A lot of people like their bells and whistles these days.

Edit: Changed the wording to be less broad for all the “But I…” specials.

Is libgen still going? I tried to get on .is a few days ago and have had nothing since. Have they possibly changed domain?

While you’re using no evidence whatsoever to convince people they’re wasting your money. I know which one of these requires less mental gymnastics. What I don’t understand is what you’re getting out of your little campaign if you expect nothing out of the average internet-goer? Are you one of the Riseup leads looking for suckers to steal the data of? One of their advertising partners who farm that data? You clearly have some kind of incentive for all the bullshit you’re spewing. What I gain is making sure the less savvy don’t fall for it.

liliumstar explained why free VPNs aren’t a recommended option, not that they had any personal preference either towards or against Riseup but it’s clear you just read what you want to read, whether any of those words are there or not.

It’s also clear that your little advertisement… or war march isn’t being received well here. You can take that as some sense of misplaced pride if you want - as said above, you’ve made it obvious you read what you want - but any of us who know enough about VPNs to know how to identify a good one are also aware we can self-host one (for free) if we wish to and make the choice to pay for a service because we’ve identified the flaws of a free service.

It’s okay if you want to be some advertiser’s statistic that is also your choice and what I expect from the average internet user. The rest of us ‘idiots’ will keep paying for a service we know we can trust instead of giving our private information to a company that has made it obvious they can’t be trusted.

So because their blurb is anti-establishment-inclined, we’re meant to blindly trust it? What about in 2016 where they willingly gave up user’s information because the FBI asked nicely? That doesn’t sound like a very secure service to my ears. In fact, it paints a certain picture that Riseup isn’t a no-logs service.

The reason we value a no-logs service so highly is because without logs, a service couldn’t snitch on a user even if they wanted to, even if the person(s) behind the company had ethical issues with what one of their users was doing with their service and decided they don’t meet the criteria of people who should have access to privacy while using the internet. A no-logs policy allows for an agnostic service. The inherent risk of true privacy on the internet is that someone is going to use it to break the law but does that mean a singular person or entity should have the right to decide whether that person is entitled to privacy? To me, that sounds a lot like the antithesis of what Riseup’s goal is. Are you going to keep advertising them knowing that?

It’s a pairing of the old batch of free ones being garbage and the addage “If it’s free, you’re the product”. Running a VPN at scale isn’t a cheap affair so you should ask where they’re making the money. Are they a proven no-logs VPN or are you operating under a ‘Trust me bro’?

Glad I could be of help

To be fair, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if…’ isn’t a testimony or claiming something happened, it’s voicing a level of disillusionment with something, nothing but opinion.

They were leeches without the torrenting.

We’ll see. Game development still generally has a lot of advancements it has yet to leverage so I’m comfortable with the choice I’ve made. I know about the tools to gut regular Windows but I assessed it would take me more effort to weed through than start with bare bones and add what little I wanted in. I’ve also tended to find every feature and minor update has inevitably messed with an object that is supposed to belong to me so I’m all aboard for not having to deal with that as often thanks to the long-term strategy of LTSC.

For some.