Recovering skooma addict.
Well, he’s not wrong that it’s “super hard” to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that “new study” was pushing it a bit far.
Windows users have regrets
Mac users have stockholm syndrome
Linux users have a computer
Did this highly scientific study contemplate the possibility that this is in part the result of people feeling like they’re more justified in turning to piracy if a game is burdened with Denuvo?
Spoiler: It does not, so far as I can tell at first glance. It appears that the model is constructed entirely from DRM-crippled games that got cracked, and then then the estimate of how much revenue would be lost by going DRM-free from the start is extrapolated from that based on the assumption that it makes no difference. Maybe it’s true, but the acknowledgement that it “can and often does cause problems, and some developers have chosen to avoid Denuvo altogether because it had such a negative impact on how well their game would run” sort of suggests otherwise.
https://abs.freemyip.com:84/share/_5WuM4QF — be careful following strange links you found on lemmy, but this appears to be the pdf.
If most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.
It’s not for the end user’s boss, it’s there to collect data for the future Microsoft user behaviour analysis tools that will be sold to the end user’s boss’s boss.
To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It’s just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like “Firefox is just a puppet for Google” is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that’s going to convince anyone.
Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.
Piracy will end when copyright ends.
I wonder which word would fit better than “assisted” there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?
I wish Signal was developed more openly, more like the linux kernel for a “critical infrastructure” example. I wish it had more features, so it could take the place of something like Slack. I wish it supported interoperability like fedi.
But it’s good for what it is and I sure am glad it’s around. People who disrespect it don’t know what they’re talking about.
Z-Library. Despite reports of its demise I’ve seen no interruption of service. And of course if there’s one I want to pay for I’ll buy a printed copy.
Disappointing, Germany. How can we trust you to find the best pirate sites when not even thepiratebay.org is on the list?
More science facts: Salt water has higher density, so if you put the Pacific Ocean into a cup of tap water, it will sink to the bottom.
Canada just gave them another big copyright term extension a couple years ago. The more you give in, the more they’ll want. I say they should get nothing more out of Canada for the life of Bob Iger plus 70 years.
Just use your VPN provider’s DNS.
Well, I guess Canadians who want to watch Prodigy are out of luck. There certainly isn’t any other way to see it. It’s just impossible.
One Mozilla developer claimed that explaining PPA would be too challenging
It’s not that difficult to explain. “When you visit the website of a participating advertiser whose ads you’ve seen, do you want us to tell them that someone saw their ads and visited their site, without telling them it was you? Y/N”
But if they asked such a question almost all of the small fraction of users who bother to read the whole sentence would still see no good reason to want to participate. Coming up with one is that hard part. It requires some pretty fancy rationalizations. Firefox keeping track of which ads I’ve seen? No, thanks.
If there was an option to make sure that advertisers whose ads I’ve blocked know that they got blocked, I might go for that.
The writer apparently thinks that the previous Mozilla misstep into advertising land was the Mr. Robot thing six years ago, which seems to confirm my impression that this one is getting a bigger reaction than their other recent moves in this direction. We’ll see if the rest of the tech press picks it up. Maybe one day when the cumulative loss of users shows up more clearly in the telemetry they’ll reconsider.
Having apps that do what users want but try to hide it from reviewers really highlights the absurdity of letting Apple decide what software you’re allowed to run.