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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even when you pirate their stuff you are giving them things; market share, data, seo pumps, bug reports, data.

[–] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You could try putting firewall rules and block it from ever connecting to the internet.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

You're still giving them market share and training yourself in their software. When you need to search up online how to do a gradient, you give views to tutorials for their products.