I don’t trust them either, that’s why I’ve never given them a single cent. My entire account is literally just free games (and I have certainly gotten a few good ones over the years, although the vast majority is crap). If I’m actually going to buy something I’ll go to GOG or Steam.
You can use a third party launcher like Heroic to avoid having to install that bloated crapfest of an app.
Why is it shortsighted? A service like this costs money to run, and if you won’t pay for it, someone else has to.
So did Facebook. It’s the old drug dealer gambit: first hit is on the house, after that, you gotta pay.
Someone just needs to make a GPU-accelerated JSON decoder
Interesting how we’ve gone from “expecting nudity from women is sexist” to “NOT expecting nudity from women is sexist”.
Uncle Ted for the Twitter generation