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Firefox’s reader view (ctrl alt r) is a godsend for cases like these.

The nvidia support is getting better, but yeah they’re years late compared to AMD which basically has better drivers on linux than windows.

Sure, as long as you run a wayland capable DE. Like GNOME or KDE. It’s still experimental in linux mint afaik. You might have a few problems if you have an NVIDIA card (no proper wayland support) or HDMI cables (limited to 144 fps because of copyright issues iirc).

Pretty sure I’ve heard users from these regions mention that they had their shops completely unavailable in certain games

Those were local measures that were not handled by the European Union.

If you look at how the EU is handling the Digital Markets Act - it’s gonna be fines.

The gaming industry is gonna fight this every step of the way. There’s gonna be lobbying, kicking and screaming; and no it’s certainly not as simple as “follow the rules or get banned”. First off because you can’t just ban games by flicking your fingers, there’s thousands of games and dozens of distributing platforms. Secondly because the goal isn’t to remove them from the market but to get them to play ball.

I guess guidelines are a decent start, the part that’s gonna be tricky is getting the gaming industry to follow them.

The fine is up to 10% of their global annual sales. Not even profits, sales. We’ll see if the EU is willing to follow through on their threats.

Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades

They actually did not, almost every software out there is mining your information. Software developers rely on and need data, you can’t guess what people want. Whether it’s from studies, testers, surveys, or telemetry, developers need information about what users like, what they don’t, how they interact with the software… This is what makes data so valuable, and why businesses like Google can exist. Denying open source software telemetry is shooting yourself in the foot.

Telemetry benefits everyone, knowing which features are getting used, knowing what parts are causing crashes… It lets developers target what to improve and fix instead of going in blind. I get that collecting data can be scary, because so far everyone has been busy selling that data. But there’s a reason why data is so valuable, if it’s properly handled and anonymized it benefits everyone using firefox.