This is untrue. Yes Denovo got removed from some games relatively early, but mostly it was long after this "peak sales window" I would have to make a list of how long it took for games, and I am too lazy to even ask AI, but I think it took years in some cases and a lot of community outrage for the devs to remove it, and they did not just remove it after some peak sales window but when the games were actually cracked and the steam forums were flooded with pissed of people who realized pirates had a better experience then actual buyers. THEN they removed it.

So it's more like after they were cracked rather than some time window, sometimes these may have been overlap.

1 year after release is for sure not "peak sales window".

>Also even the fixed game now is just a silly boring sandbox game, what makes it good is the story

Insane statement

"Not into computer science" lol. I knew how to copy a damn crack at 13 years or whatever and a barely figured out windows by that time. You act like people are stupid. Sure there are some console gamers who only use their phone for social media and are clueless about computers in 2026, but most people know how to copy some damn files over. They do not need to be in "computer science".

tech aware, i don't care how you call them, english is not my first language that's just the term I came up with on the spot. Non-tech aware people will not know about the steam emulators

Also that's the point. You purchased something you should not have to crack it to keep it.

You have no clue what you are talking about. Registry entries that are required by games are like a thing of the past for like 25 years or something.

I am a heavy pirate and I my favorite games come as raw files torrents with the crack pre-applied. Games these days (with DRM removed) simply execute no matter where you copy and move them they just work. The cracks themselves do not modify any registry entries or make the game write them new or differently because they simply do not use the registry. Games write their savegames in AppData or Documents and THAT IS IT. Installers are glorified copy machines with ads on them (GOG) for example. They copy files and put a shortcut in your start menu and desktop and THAT IS IT, they do not write special registry entries for a game to work. Again this has not been a thing for like 25 years. I think it was when SecureROM was a thing.

So yes some steam games actually come DRM free, and you do not even have to move them out of the original steam install folder you just need to execute the EXE without steam running and they work. So indeed it is in fact achieving if you simply keep the files somewhere. For game with basic steam DRM you can use a crack or use steamless that basically removes the steam DRM that is very basic from the exe and use Goldberg Steam Emu to emulate steam. You do all this after the fact so you CAN for all the game that to not have some advanced DRM like Denovo just achieve the games files and make them work later on without Steam.

M$ account is not strictly "mandatory" as you claim. There are ways to work around this. I NEVER in my life had an M$ account, I have a GitHub Account, but that is still separate AFAIK. Rufus can mod the ISO for it, and there is another way around it during install. They just want you to use one so they can spy in you better. It's on you to have an OS account to an online service in the first place. Then entire concept is utterly retarded, I do not care who it is M$ or some of the best champions of Open Source and ethical Linux distro, I will not use any fucking account of them to log into my LOCAL PRIVATE OS, it makes ZERO sense and its pathetic how that managed to lure so many morons onto doing this.

I remember first seeing this during a Win install and instantly looked for a way around it, I think they even have removed a workaround to make it even harder for people to work around this BS.

Besides, infesting Windows with Spyware and AI what they did to the start menu was among the most atrocious changes they made.

I was always a taskbar top guy, because it simply makes more sense, this is not opinion this is fact. Browser tabs are on the TOP, your mouse hovers over the top of the screen WAY more, and It's stupid to have to spend miles in mouse travel time to the bottom of the screen. Window controls like close, minimize, fs are TOP. Most things are on the TOP. Whoever made the decision to remove that ability to move the taskbar while Linux basically offers EVERYTHING you can imagine and more is insane. I was using Explorer Patcher, but it was buggy for me, so I use Start 11 now, its works fine, but it should not need a 3rd party closed source software to basically just have what Windows always offered.

I use Windows only for gaming, everything else I do on Linux. I think It's too late to realize these things. M$ started by just buying software and building a monopoly they were never the good guys so I can not say the "lost it" but whatever this BS is they are doing now its worse. I also use AtlasOS to bring some sense into Windows, also something that should not be needed and be that way out of the box with few simple switches. It's just a bloated mess, at least its stable for the most part.

"Harmful content" translation: What the government do not like. What ISRAEL does not like. Another call for more censorship from a force financed state propaganda outlet nobody with a brain takes seriously. How original.

I don't know I have straight up calls for violence against jews on my TikTok pop up and when I report them, TikTok almost always comes back with "No Violations Found"

> Internal research shared with the BBC showed comments on Reels had significantly higher prevalence of bullying and harassment, hate speech, and violence or incitement than elsewhere on Instagram.

I mean, if you want to claim the Jews (let's be honest about what you mean by ISRAEL) are opposed to the above, then... good?

How would one even measure productivity in a newsroom, who write more propaganda pieces without sounding like AI?

Of course, it does, because democracy is FAKE, and the corruption exposes this very fact. It's never the people (Demos) who actually control its fake freedoms that are getting taken away that gives the elites to control nations. Zionists and others control so-called democracies.

I think it's a GOOD thing, actually. Because all these publications a dying anyway. And even if your filter out all the ad and surveillance trash, you are left with trash propaganda and brain rot content. Like why even make the effort of filtering out the actual text from some "journalist" from these propaganda outlets. It's not even worth it.

If people tune out only because how horrible the sites are, good.

I think that unless one is well-connected or is willing to pay significant money, time, and/or effort to obtain high-quality information, one will still generally get more accurate information about the world by reading between the lines of the propaganda than one would by not reading the propaganda at all.