[-] kaptan@hackerz.world 31 points 8 months ago

The issue is not the rep, it's the vague "content oversight." If the goverments can ban anything they deem "risky" that's censorship not regulation. That's exactly why piracy will explode. Let the game begin..

[-] kaptan@hackerz.world 17 points 8 months ago

Fair point. Let the giants pay the tax to treat us like criminals while indies get to market themselves. It just makes it easier to decide who to support and who to pirate.

[-] kaptan@hackerz.world 38 points 8 months ago

Publishers would just pay the extra fee and pass the cost to us. They care about controlling the data than they do about actual sales. You know.. capitalism.

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Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

[-] kaptan@hackerz.world 4 points 8 months ago

If you are talking about free ai, the cost is your data.

Just use 4get. It's a privacy focused proxy search engine that supports multiple backends. No telemetry, no tracking, no bloat.

Repository: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

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