Why not both? Eating a few of the worst offenders sends a message to the rest to accept the taxes without complaining.

The only engagement it gets after an unwanted notification is the uninstall button.

Beep once. Do not speak.

Ya, easy. Stop going to Starbucks. They union bust by closing stores to shit on their employees. Terrible company. If you are a patron of Starbucks, you earned that shitty app and all that comes with it.

Trust us bro. We won’t send it anywhere. 🤞

Get friends with better values.

The difference is he was a poor trying to pull himself up. Corporations are glorious entities that can do no wrong in American law.

No, the existing “base line” price will stay as is for the poors. Those with slightly more money however…those will pay more.

Opinions aside, that’s still not the legal definition of a monopoly.

Monopoly: Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service.

Valve does not have exclusive control of the PC gaming market. The EGS funded lawsuit even says that in the docket. They are only suing on the grounds of the keys issue. I don’t disagree with you that when Newell leaves, things COULD change, but you can’t base the present on the possible future. At this time, steam is on “top” because the vast majority of users have voted with their wallet and time. Not because they are engaged in sweeping anti-competitive backdoor dealings. You know, like EGS does.

That’s not what a monopoly is.

Epic had all the money in the world and tons of time (and users) to create a viable alternative. They didn’t fail because valve squeezed them out, they failed because they refuse to improve their product. In fact, it could be said that Epic wanted to become the monopoly themselves. If they spent half as much effort on their product as they do on lawsuits and exclusivity deals, they would have been a viable competitor. But they didn’t. At the end of the day, it sucks to use. Steam does not.

Fallout was right.

Look at this smug assholes face. He knows damn well they won’t be doing anything of the sort unless it increases their profit margins. And he also knows damn well the government won’t do anything to seriously hinder their margins.

Bread and circuses. This is just another show. You want change? Stop using Microsoft. Period.

It’s this. They don’t care if you, the user, don’t like it anymore. That’s irrelevant to MSoft. The big corpo dollars are all they pay attention to. And it’s really easy to sell a c suite and middle managers on their new click counter 3000 embedded in the next version of teams. Any way to monitor the employees and show useless metrics without having to actually do their jobs.

What are you talking about? The current congress is incredibly effective. They just have way more important things to focus on then whatever you peasants are yammering about. Like banning tiktok.

That’s fair. The last gens were pretty “dumb” but your point is still valid.

Chrome cast still works too. Just grab the last gen versions.

If a service ever says discord only when I try to login, that service no longer exists. Find an alternative or make do without it.

Not to mention the kernel level anti cheat there too.

9/11 reference to people who think it was an inside job.