That’s the garden variety censorship though, right? Your government deciding no one should be allowed access, not just restricting access behind mandatory state sanctioned identity theft like some of the more “Enlightened” countries have.
I think the normies just find the niche hard to appreciate. People don’t think about things like ownership and DRM until they are forced to.
Luckily GOG isn’t affected at this stage.
Yep I can see them in search but I’m an Australian with no credit card, that’s all I can see.
It is a really good filter for me, any company that wants to harvest the bogus information I will use to access them had better do a good job of convincing me it’s worth the effort.
I have a similar take on online stores wanting me to create a login to get a shipping cost, unless they are offering a truly unique item, or outrageously good price I just don’t buy anything from them.
If we all had a similar standards these bits of UX fuckery would disappear over time, unfortunately most people don’t even think about it.
Yeah, maybe. Different pathways to the same end I guess still gets you to the same end… In Germany.