It's not always black and white; let's be honest, yes, Kim Dotcom was probably more about piracy than freedom of whatever simply because that's where his money was.
But:
> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise?
Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general?
They know they need these communities un-privated asap, because as soon as search engines start reindexing their ranking will take a huge hit (therefore guest users, therefore ad revenue). At the same time they have shown no interest in listening to what the community wants. They are Digg-ing their grave.
> Now, all smart TVs come with ads. But you still pay for the TV.
Here's the crazy other solution: let me pay for the TV and don't put ads on it. But I guess milking those who can't set up a simple DNS ad blocker (you wouldn't believe how many people don't even use a browser ad-blocking extension) is too pretty of a penny.
I'm not a fan of Figma at all and I am forced to use it since there is no better alternative. I found Adobe XD was better but it's getting discontinued (EDIT: last time I heard - I might be wrong? Can't find info on this anymore) and it doesn't run on Linux.
My biggest gripe with Figma is the fact that you can only use components from the same file, unless you're paying (and even then you have to use a team, even if you are the only member, then create a project and add the file with the components in the project, enable sharing of the components, and make sure your second file is in the same project... not exactly a seamless experience, in a UX prototyping software of all places).
Shall you decide not to pay and give up to only using components from the same file, good luck organizing it neatly, since you only get 3 pages.
I used to think that every action these big corps do, has been calculated for months by a team of analytics professionals and even the most apparently nonsensical move has a calculated ROI. After seeing Meta burn money into their metaverse furnace and Netflix insisting on this, I'm starting to think that might not be the case.
Then again, Netflix has talked about shared accounts for so long that it only looks like China's final warning at this point.