• NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml
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    NexusMods has been enshittifying for a while now.

    Useless website design that only serves the purpose of making you scroll past more unwanted content, annoying ads, a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup) and the gall to ask for premium subscriptions after tracking and selling your data.

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      a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup)

      You misunderstand, they value your privacy monetarily, as in invading it makes them money.

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      They also can’t build a mod manager to save their lives.

      God help you if you think they understand anything about how to write any OS agnostic code.

      In other news: ModDB still exists. Same with GameBanana.

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        don’t worry, it’s even worse than that:

        they already built one, and then abandoned it!

        the NexusModsApp (terrible name) WAS OS-agnostic and already in beta.

        they killed it because it was “splitting their resources”, and “confusing users”… bullshit, their new onwers forced them to cut costs.

        they’re effectively dead, just a matter of time until their new owners slaughter the golden goose because it isn’t laying eggs fast enough…

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        I’m a fan of thunderstore, having been there when it was made for RoR2. Not sure how I feel about the UI redesign, but it’s simple and as of yet unenshittified.

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      Please don’t browse the web without ad blockers (which also block trackers and cookie banners). It’s unsafe and not good for you.

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        Given Chrome’s changes, this should also read: use Firefox or a non-chromium based browser, with an ad blocker.

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          This goes without saying, but yes. The ad blocker should also be uBlock Origin.

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        LibreWolf + uBlock Origin here. I only got ads on NexusMods once, when I opened the wrong browser on accident.

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      shit sucks, i remember endlessly browsing nexus mods back when i played fallout 3 and new vegas. I tried using it with fallout 4 a couple of years back and it straight up was unusable.