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[–] Einhornyordle@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm amazed that noone here is complaining about the fact that the offline installer for the product you paid for contains ads. Yes, offline ads that do not track you and only for other games on their plattform, but still ads. Not the worst thing in the world, I know, but still annoying.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Steam has a splash screen with ads whenever you open the launcher, I don’t have a console but I assume Xbox/PS/NSW2 also have some sort of advertisements. If the ads bother you that much, you can use innoextract instead of running their installer.

[–] Einhornyordle@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

If you are talking about the smaller, seperate news window, you can disable that in the settings. My switch (1) also has a news feed but you can decide for yourself which news channel you want to subscribe too, or none at all. For GOG, there is no ad free version of the installer, you'd have to use third party tools or maybe powershell/cmd (I never tried the latter).