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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] lordkekz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, I agree with you. Banning ads as a good thing. I just wanted to point out that Valve isn't doing this purely for our benefit. Valve also does some anti-competitive or anti-consumer stuff to keep their near-monopolistic status.