And even if the game did greatly benefit from it, most people are already using esync/fsync in lutris/proton/etc. and so they also won't really see a difference from what they're used to.

that is typically how boycotts work yes.

Nestle isn't poisoning their bottled water but some people still refuse to buy it.

this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

there are plenty, you just don't happen to use them

you can't because it's explicitly against the whole point of having endless choices. when everyone works on something different, the quality spreads out to where it's mostly just mediocre stuff across the board.

https://xkcd.com/927

hardware compatibility is also a huge problem. for everyone that says "it works fine for me" there are a thousand others for whom it does not.

I'm very disappointed there was no praise for dad at the end of all that.

Safari too: https://clearcode.cc/blog/privacy-preserving-ad-click-attribution-explained/

This was a webkit proposal from 2019: https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-attribution-for-the-web/

And it has been a W3C draft since 2021: https://privacycg.github.io/private-click-measurement/

the internet.

Which is hilarious because desktop apps have always had the capability to spy on all other apps and steal all your data.

God no. Just take a hatchet to my battery and be done with it.

You'd be surprised what little impact on battery it actually has. I find this type of swift casting aside of something you've not even tried to be rather disingenuous.

Also, if your device has a cellular modem with an active connection, your provider is already tracking your location constantly and selling your personal information to the highest bidder anyways (including law enforcement and governments), so IMO it's a bit pointless to worry so much about that.

doesn't always work unfortunately

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/