The issue is not the rep, it's the vague "content oversight." If the goverments can ban anything they deem "risky" that's censorship not regulation. That's exactly why piracy will explode. Let the game begin..

Fair point. Let the giants pay the tax to treat us like criminals while indies get to market themselves. It just makes it easier to decide who to support and who to pirate.

Publishers would just pay the extra fee and pass the cost to us. They care about controlling the data than they do about actual sales. You know.. capitalism.

If you are talking about free ai, the cost is your data.

Just use 4get. It's a privacy focused proxy search engine that supports multiple backends. No telemetry, no tracking, no bloat.

Repository: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

Apple markets security well, but this isn't about apple vs microsoft vs google. All of them work with governments and collect data. "more secure" depends on threat model, configuration and transparency; not the brand.

We are not talking about privacy, right.. They are making the world safe for us within no privacy.. very well :)