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  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldto> Greentext@lemmy.mlAnon dislikes Steam
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    1 month ago

    I personally prefer like/dislike over a star rating system. Maybe, MAYBE having a middle “meh” rating would be helpful but at the end of the day you either recommend something or you don’t. If you ask a friend “should I play this?” and they say “idk man” that’s basically a recommendation to not play it.




  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldto> Greentext@lemmy.mlAnon thinks about Google
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    3 months ago

    Google search is still better than bing, somehow. Gmail is good for signing up to stuff I don’t want mailing my protonmail. Google maps is still genuinely useful. Youtube is, for now, still better than any alternative I know about. I don’t see what’s wrong with Pixel phones.

    Don’t get me wrong, google is evil now and I don’t like it. But I don’t know any better alternatives for those things. Mm, except gmail, I could replace that I guess but it’s such a pain.










  • These other guys have given a good gist of the issue, but IMO it’s inaccurate. The problem lies with society and capitalism at the end of the day. Basically, credit processors are in it for the money, obviously. And they view porn as a risk to profits, because puritanical society means that statistically a lot of sex related purchases lead to charge backs when someone finds out and the purchaser denies having any knowledge of it. So as a result the credit processors don’t allow their services to be used for sex stuff.

    This is not to say that the credit processors AREN’T led by puritans with an agenda. Just that their profit motive probably has more to do with it.



  • It really sucks, but I get it. They’ve decided to err well on the side of caution regarding that “things we think are illegal” clause. If the wrong person claimed that flat chested adult were a minor and proved it in court it could be a real problem for valve. Hell, it’d be expensive just to defend in court, even if they won. I hate it, but I understand why they’d make that decision.