rdri

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[–] rdri 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hard disagree on denuvo. If it's no problem for you then you must have tons of experience in re. Which puts you into some 1%-ish group. Depends on the type of mods you do of course.

[–] rdri 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can. Google steamless.

[–] rdri 55 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Steam DRM is nothing like stuff people should be aware of. Ask any modder for confirmation.

[–] rdri 3 points 5 months ago

Well did it help Epic when they added achievements? Guess not much. Either they never marketed this feature enough or most spending users never cared about achievements on Epic.

[–] rdri 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you mean just the percentage of users I might agree. But those people don't really correlate with the users who provide most of the profit of the platform.

[–] rdri 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My profile is also not public but it's visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.

There are also achievement statistics.

[–] rdri 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I see. Still, I can see that for many people achievements with no value are no better than their absence. Platform provides value, and for now only steam provides a lot of it with almost each purchase.

[–] rdri 2 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Are you serious? Obviously people don't care about achievements on a platform that has almost no community-related functionality.

[–] rdri 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean the basic logic of the service was designed somewhere before its release. Data policies, promises to users are nothing if you assume services should adapt to stuff like this, at the expense of breaking those policies and promises.

Here is an old article from telegram about reasons for how it works https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by-Default-08-14

[–] rdri 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, just personal experience (I use telegram for many years) and absence of server data implications anywhere across the issues in the past (at this time too). You can find questionable or illegal businesses in telegram with a few words, they are all public channels. Hence "no moderation" accuses mentioned in every article.

There are of course darknet-like private communities, but I assume they are not a subject of interest at this time. Authorities would need to dig very deep past all the obvious illegal stuff, and telegram shouldn't care about resources consumed by such a small chunk of user base. Those groups will stay, as they are, private and safe, I assume, for quite some time.

[–] rdri 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Assuming things should work that way is ignorant. According to you, service owners should design and redesign their services to not store any data in order to avoid arrests. Also that a service owner should invent stuff they might not had a plan for if they have even a theoretical possibility to help identify individual users, in other words go against policies they designed at some point.

[–] rdri 10 points 5 months ago (9 children)

That's a wild way of twisting the logic. Just because the platform doesn't fall under your e2ee definition doesn't mean they had to do something that is only possible on purely cloud services.

The reason for arrest doesn't even have anything to do with encryption. All content that facilitates mentioned crimes is public. Handling it shouldn't involve any backdoors or otherwise service-side decryption.

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