Info Sec - Software Engineer - Game Designer - Mod Dev - Digital Artist
I think anyone who’s paid any attention to targeted advertising has know this long before LMMs were a thing. Removing the ‘easy answer’ is just a legal formality at this point and does little to nothing for the privacy it claims to protect. Advertisers like Google like it that way and will fight tooth and nail against any ‘reconsiderations’
Except countries don’t fund the whole game and certainly not without conditions and criteria.
This also ignores indie devs who often only get their start self funding their project via day jobs. We could have so many more new ideas in niche genres if actually gave two shits about supporting new devs and not some AAA mega corp churning out the same uninspired garbage.
From a techical perspective I’m still annoyed that the amorphous blobs were not the agreed default. They are the simplest to store in SVG, have no gradients to render, and being non-human makes them not require skin/gender modifiers. All expression, nothing more.
Amazon eBook formats have DRM that encrypts it to you and your Kindle’s unique device ID and they can just stop reissuing, or revoke the decryption keys. They make it extraordinarily difficult to export/download them in a DRM-free format that would otherwise be unaffected.