That’s what we’ve started using my friends and I, can’t complain, sure it doesn’t integrate all the gaming shit but we just have it running in the background so we can talk anyway

I think being on a tech community instead of the gaming ones helps

And Newell is Valve because it’s his private company

Sanders doesn’t have control over (probably) thousands of the games you “own” or, if we’re honest, the PC gaming market as a whole.

If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he’s already a shitty billionaire.

Steam underage gambling profits him directly.

He owns a yacht collection while his clients can’t afford to own the place they live in. How’s that for an environmental impact?

His reaction to George Floyd’s murder wasn’t that Valve should release a statement as he considered that problematic (source), instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a “shut the fuck up”. Employees are complaining about something? Here’s 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn’t care!

Women employees with managerial positions at Valve? What women employees?

Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.

Some people are starting to wake up to the fact that the guy is just another libertarian billionaire, he just happens to be in charge of a company that made a product people love enough to give them monopolistic powers.

Edit: these people aren’t in this thread

Edit 2: first edit was from when the votes on that comment were at -8, happy to see that for once one of my comments on this subject ends up in the positives

Settings, filter list, cookie notices

Ublock Origin has that option!

Not with for profit prisons buddy!

Also interesting

https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/

Or you can just disable RCS and solve the issue for yourself

I’ve been using it for years to chat with people on a bunch of different carriers… Seems like carrier incompetence, not Google’s fault

I’ve cancelled my subscriptions to only subscribe to the platforms owned by our national broadcaster even if there’s one of them I don’t watch any shows on, fuck those American platforms.

Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?

Well these days Android asks for more permissions so I guess it would prevent it in many cases by preventing access to the microphone for apps where you don’t want to allow it…

Go to settings and try to reset to default settings

Ublock origin on Firefox and that’s the only one you use?

I use revanced on mobile so good question but it does on PC

Revanced or Firefox with ublock, no more ads

Eh…

Clearly they don’t considering they had fascist governments decades ago and have one/are on their way to having one again now while it’s the first one in the US (Trump’s first term wasn’t like this one even if it was a shitshow…)