Can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

Framework smartphone please. Though I think that is VERY unlikely.

Lemmy seemed to parse that as two separate hyperlinks for me. This should work as a simple clickable link 🤞 https://web.archive.org/web/20240926051545/https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634

Hmm, I think this is an Mbin vs Lemmy issue. There are two differences in the URL:

1. The broken URL has %2C instead of ,. This part does not make a difference, because that resolves to a comma anyway
2. The broken URL has = at the very end for some reason. This is what breaks it. Remove that character, and the URL works fine

The weird thing here is that the broken URL only ever shows up on Mbin. Below are a few different links to the comment in which you shared the broken URL. If you view the comment on your Mbin instance, it is indeed broken. But if you view it on this community’s Lemmy instance or my home instance, your same comment actually has the working URL. Something about how the post/comment were federated must have messed things up.

• https://programming.dev/post/32148095/17523722
• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36630589/20713561
• https://thebrainbin.org/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/864885/We-re-done-with-Teams-German-state-hits-uninstall-on-Microsoft/comment/6706294#entry-comment-6706294

Is that not literally the same link as the OP?

EDIT: Ah, the OP’s edit from 30 minutes before your comment has not federated out to your instance yet.

did this change happen when they made this game “free”?

Judging based on the price history on Is There Any Deal? and the dates of negative Steam reviews mentioning the ToS changes: no. The game is “free” as of this week, but the ToS had been updated with all those negative changes in May.

Ouch, recent reviews are harsh

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware.

Important Info in Terms of Service:

• Mods are a bannable offense
• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
• Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area
• You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers
• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC

Collected Data Types:

• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.