Deluxeparrot

PC Gaming Wiki have a page that’s auto generated that tracks games using, and formally using Denuvo.

For gog games you can check the digital signature on the installer to make sure it’s legit. It should be signed by GOG.

Not really as hiding dns alone doesn’t give you a big increase in privacy. Your isp can see what sites you visit immediately after anyway.

It could be argued that sending all your dns requests to a 3rd party by default is actually a decrease in privacy.

That’s basically it. They keep control. They can charge subscriptions. They own it. Not you.

This is the answer. From the devs point of view it’s getting the most value out of the product they have spent years making.

For Reddit it’s a good PR move.

I don’t think they will be paying anything until they implement subscriptions. They are exempt for now in exchange for removing advertising from their apps.

Once they implement subscriptions then they get income to cover the cost of the api.

This seems quite clever by Reddit. It looks like there’s some deal that if they remove ads from their apps they get free api usage for a few months. Seems suspicous that both apps doing this have removed ads.

This will soften the blow a little for Reddit as now at least 1 decent sized 3rd party app on each platform (Android/IOS) will continue to work for a while.

A clever PR move that changes nothing.