Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it’s an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

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Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

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I love Steam, but thinking about switching to gog over this. Anybody have any ideas how we can let valve know this isn’t okay?

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I mean I always use GoG, if given the option. But there’s almost always no GoG option. Publishers want some form of DRM.

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I did this years ago and have like 500 games on GOG. Ended up going back to Steam due to features that gog just doesn’t have. Sigh.

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I have a feeling I would feel the same. Its nice having everything in one place. What was missing for you?

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Link to whatever you’re talking about?

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The timestamp in the coffeezilla video.

Watch the whole thing for more detail.

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I understand your frustration but I’m not casting some wide net here. I’m simply talking about political ideologies being in your face.

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