> asks question as if they don’t know what it means

> gets a frank response with definition

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Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)

A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word franchise as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.”[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_franchise

They really are trying to milk everything out of that franchise and doing a terrible job at doing so.

Privacy and regulation are important. Nobody knew.

Don’t like this? Sign the EU petition Stop Killing Games.

This is what happens when you opensource stuff. Some dude will make it work on Linux 🤣 . Amazing.

Awesome, thank you!

Oh shit, really? Do you have a source for that?

I wish they worked with opensource projects like Heroic to provide an easy and fast way to run their games on Linux like in Steam. And if they provided a donation option or something to fund that work.

Nice! Looking forward to the release. I’m sure there’s a gamedev community on lemmy where you can talk about the development of the game and announce when it has been released and where!

Will you only publish it on steam? It would be great to have games available on other platforms like GoG too.

Dude, that webpage is so full of trackers, it doesn’t even load with ublock origin. Here’s the archive link.

So it takes up to 15 minutes to apply (if successful) and has to be done every time you start your XBox 360. It’s great that there’s no hardware changes involved so even I could make changes, but at every boot?

Putting “I have nothing to hide” to the test. Let’s see how it shakes out.

But remember, people said “I have nothing to hide”.

I didn’t change the frame of reference. Those technologies are 30 years old. Back when I started using computers, you had to download every little thing and websites looked like shit. That was the problem that needed solving. Your “solution” was to basically just keep doing that. In fact, you don’t even think it was a problem.

Viruses and malware didn’t exist in your world, did they? You were happy loading up any old program onto your DOS machine to test it, right? No sandboxing, no nothing. The world was perfect back then. Java applets were a treat too, right? Running right in your user environment with access to the full disk. Why ever change that? There wouldn’t ever be a problem with drive-by infections. Nooo, full-disk access is not a problem to solve.

GIFs were an amazing technology too. We should’ve stayed with that instead of streaming or upload videos to watch them in the browser. Yeah, I loved having to download everything then hope the video format was playable locally.

Bro, your “proposal” to just stay stuck in Y2K is garbage and you expect me to just nod along. Good old days my ass. Web apps exist for a bloody reason and solve real problems. If you seriously think they’re just here to flash ads at you and track you, then you stopped thinking years ago. Think about a real, alternative solution instead just “we don’t need it”. It might actually get some dust off the cogs in that machine of yours instead of just storing old memories and wishing times hadn’t changed.

You’re shouting at clouds old man. I thought you were going to propose an actual solution, not just weather against the times.

I’m not sure what the solution is that you’re proposing. Web documents with links to download software instead of web apps? Am I understanding that right?

I am curious, what do you think would’ve been the better solution?

Digital fingerprinting collects and analyzes multiple data points from a user’s device - such as screen resolution, installed fonts, browser settings, and even battery status - to create a unique profile

Why is all this information available in the first place? Why the hell does a website need to know which fonts are installed, which browser settings are active, and why the hell would it require the battery status? Why are browsers sharing that much information in the first place?