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medicinemane · 10 months

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So, I decided I wanted to check out this modpack that had looked interesting, so I go and download the curseforge app (cause modpacks are kind of a pain to launch without a launcher... as in I'm not sure how you even do it)

Dear god, which a fucking monster. They've got fucking ads running all over the fucking place

Instadeleted it, you do no get to serve me ads under any circumstances, if you do fuck you, I'm not using you. You're not a website, you're an app, and if you're pounding me with ads regardless of what I'm doing, then I don't think you're secure (and even if you are fuck you)

So I've had to track down an alternative one called uh... GDLauncher. Can't say for sure, but so far seems much much better... seems like an opensource launcher that's just a launcher and that's it

Not that any of you play modpacks so not that this matters, but that curseforge shit was just so bad I had to complain

#also I'm having opinions at this point about having to sign in to a 3rd party launcher in order to run minecraft with it #it's striking me just how much minecraft is kind of... the ultimate drm game and we've just kind of put up with it cause it's good #you know how I got into minecraft?#piracy; pirated a copy of it right when the nether had first been released and decided it was worth being able to play with other people #do no like the fact that you can't do single player minecraft without signing in #in it's defense; you can do offline stuff so long as you're signed in #but uh... part of me wants to pirate shit just from a moral standpoint with it; literally only not doing it cause it's easier tojust sign i #rather than figuring out how to make it work #and also once again; I get it; the launcher is free and anyone can get it; so in order to gate access and make sure they're paid #they need a different gate #but uh... yeah... I guess this is my real point #I don't actually own minecraft #I own all my world files; I have direct access to them #but I don't own a copy of minecraft #and say what you want about pirated stuff; but you do own it #because all the files are contained on my computer; in digital terms that's ownership #true digital ownership is when it runs in a black box setting; no input; no output; just what's on the machine it's on #and when you can put in a hard drive; copy it; and plug that hardrive into something else to have a full copy of it #so minecraft is pissing me off a little cause I don't own it and that always annoys me with anything digital #big believer in digital ownership

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