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uBlock Origin is also not piracy, but it is the real way to block

since they can’t legally harvest data

Oh, poor little things 🥺

Telegram has Russian developers, but I would expect that it sells data to everyone complies to some other jurisdiction

Also if my understanding of US patents is correct (chances are low, but still) you can use sha1 instead of md5 and change some other minor thing and it’ll not infringe that patent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’d say if you ask a mathematician, they would disagree with you. But maybe that depends on how far they have gone into maths from common sense

Maybe you use the corporative version? My products don’t ask me to close when I’m offline, and even when I’m not logged in with JB account they start asking to log in after some weeks

I second that this kind of licence seems very reasonable.

I find subscription licences to be frustrating but kind of reasonable, because those let the developers to focus on improving the product rather than making stuff broken on purpose to make the user pay for an upgrade. But that’s really controversial even in my own mind, don’t know if there’s a good solution but “magazine subscription” licence looks really good

Although you’re correct, I find fediverse lacking in the department of the more niche stuff, e.g. fandoms of specific games, communities by geo proximity, obscure hobbies.

But well, Reddit wasn’t like this from the start and I hope the diversity and smaller communities will be here instead of there with time.

People often can’t make companies to do stuff even if they pay for it, so that is a really meh argument 😔

Oh, yes, so true. Like when a game is no longer up for buying because one of the music tracks in the OST had it’s license rot, perfect customer service

I wonder if you have legal access to things you’re pirating, could someone call that a theft too? 🤔

I’m not sure whether to agree or not, but he’s got the point in the following sense: if everyone will pirate and never donate to the creator, then the creator will get about zero returns and will likely go make a living doing something else.

So pirate + donate looks like more fair redistribution of wealth, while pirate + no pay looks like being greedy asshole same as corporations

Yes