Indeed. We don't even need to talk about EEE or past genocide enabling behavior from facebook. The lack of moderation of threads is plenty reason to defederate. My sanity is valuable enough that I won't see for myself, but it sure seems like "@libsoftiktokofficial" on threads is the "real deal".
do you also consider "awful" to mean "full of awe" and be a synonym to awesome?
I do not. The "free" feature set is good enough for my needs.
I assume kotakuinaction is still around somehow as well.
the DDG browser can setup a "fake vpn" tracking blocker for your entire phone. Last I checked certain apps were excluded by default as the tech is quite new and some apps don't work right with it. It'll then give you an overview of how many tracking attempts it blocks for each app.
https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/games/top50.html
Keep in mind that this list contains both full games and engines for closed source games.
I looked into it some more and it seems there was a "shady" script you could use to grant yourself any piece of paid dlc you wanted, so The Money People probably asked how they could ensure that doesn't happen again and just didn't care about the drawbacks for regular people.
IIRC payday 2 had glacially slow progression at launch. Now what if you could simply pay some (more) money to skip those boring early levels this time around?
The offerings are usually a mix of premium or semi-premium games as well as your typical predatory games. They all have had every bit of monetization stripped out of them (no dlc, no ads, no paid currency). I don't think I've ever seen a mmorpg on play pass but there are many high quality games. If you setup family sharing you can share the subscription at no extra cost. Good discount for annual renewal too.
or the Great American Icon "Homelander"
which will shortly change its name to "plus max"