this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

Official site allows direct downloads, the option is just hidden from less savvy users. What you're arguing is basically the "you don't access the content as google means to, so it's piracy" shit that's used to scare people away from adblockers too

I think piracy starts from where you start distributing restricted content to other people, to allow them to also enjoy that content. That's also very based