Why go that far? Its CEO funding anti-gay efforts is enough to me.

The numbers represent confirmed cases, so there could be more. There used to be a GOG thread dedicated to testing games for DRM on Epic, but then it was locked and its main contributors have switched to adding the information to the wiki.

Why would I trust a random cropped screenshot from a bad faith subreddit about hating everything related to Epic? Either of us can run Process Monitor, filter by the desired process, and see if their claims have merit. They don’t.

The article and post I linked already explain the Steam and process list parts. How in your opinion does any program that needs to check if a process is running do that? Where would you expect Epic to get your Steam friends list if you’re asking it to import your Steam friends?

I’ve heard stories of Microsoft support team members suggesting cracks when they couldn’t activate the system the legal way.

Citing “fuckepic” 🤦. The spyware claims from amateurs not even understanding the basics of Process Monitor have been long debunked by people who aren’t even sympathetic to Epic (1, 2).

At least in the first years, most of the games released on the Epic Games Store were DRM-free, in the strictest sense in that you could move the folder from PC to PC without needing the launcher, like on GOG. You can see the data as of today here.

It’s not about engagement. As the court documents have shown, they want to increase the number of users and then see how many of those convert to paying customers.

This. The court documents from the trials vs Google and Apple even showed that they divide how much they pay the publisher for the giveaway by the number of users acquired to determine the cost per user.

Telegram too requires that you verify your phone number, right? So I took that as a given.

Assuming you have a computer to get on here, you could use an Android emulator like BlueStacks.

Isn’t it obvious from its front page? It lets you choose between the Brave and the Google search engines.

I use it too and it’s fully sufficient for my amateur tasks (functions to calculate things, conditional highlighting, etc), but the people who say there may be compatibility issues have a point. I remember files saved in the MS apps or vice versa not having the same like breaks, margins, or whatever it was that caused some content to not be on the same page as on the origin system.

I don’t know much about OpenOffice, but virtually all open source apps are developed by specific individuals who ask for donations or get paid for enterprise use. If you just download and use the app quietly, there’s probably no problem, however, if you talk about it to anyone, you’re promoting it and that may lead to others donating, generating more visibility, leading to more contracts, and so on.

Shadow profiles are nothing new. A lot has been written on Facebook doing that. I have a personal story related to that as well. Years after I removed my Facebook account, I tried signing up on Instagram with a different email address, but it wouldn’t let me (probably due to the way I connected) until I entered that old email address. After a while, among the people suggested to me to follow was a Facebook friend I hadn’t connected with or looked at in years. Needless to say, I removed my Instagram account right after that, but I’m sure the data is still stored somewhere.

I think the mere fact of someone having (presumably) taken the great risks of entering the US illegally and staying illegally is enough to infer that going back is not seen as a viable option, hence me discussing the alternatives as requested. On the other hand, suggesting to go back to Mexico is as good as no advice, because that’s what deportation does as well.

It’s best to ask those who risk everything just to get to the US. I assume Mexico is inferior by most if not all metrics, at least pre-Trump. For example, you are five times more likely to be murdered in Mexico than in the US.

Edit: killed->murdered

You’re not wrong, but if the person is from Mexico, where else do they go? If they don’t have many items and can afford a flight to another continent, they could try taking one to a country like Russia, then illegally cross into Europe, but that’s another risk.