My adblock blocks the ads, but I still get that stupid purple screen. What really annoys me is that it's a minute and a half long. Twitch really wants me to disable ad block so I look at an ad on a Livestream for almost two fucking minutes.
I minimize and do something else until then but that's asinine.
Steams biggest competition isn't another launcher, it's piracy. Gabe is wise enough to know that, if the next guy to take over is a chode they'll learn the hard way.
Conspiracy theorists claim that, but really they simply take the position "government bad" and lazily cease any further critical thinking. Which is why it's easy to rile them up and feed them into the alt right pipeline.
Conspiracy nuts are verifiably one of the easiest groups to manipulate. You convince them you are one of them and you can make them do/believe anything you want. Just say it with a straight face and they'll make it a core belief they'll die for.
I don't know. But I do know masking up when sick was a thing even before covid.