Trapped In America

Yeah, I gave mine (a whole $7) to Make-A-Wish. Don’t even use PayPal so…

Oh really? That’s good to know.

I wonder how they justify that on taxes lol…

“Yeah, we paid out $500 to 1337snipergodx6969@gmail.com. You’ll need to verify the other details with PayPal.”

Yeah, that’s for their ad-free Premium thing, which gets rid of ads and lets you skip the nag screen you’re talking about. Which, fun fact, you can use uBlock Origin and a Greasemonkey script to skip (I’d recommend ViolentMonkey to run the script) ;)

Which reminds me, the top mods every game/month are eligible for a small cut of that money if you opt-in and give them your real personal info. I’ve only ever made the cut once so I completely forgot about it.

Long time modder here, so I’ve been keeping up with this very closely. The owner (Dark0ne) really just handed control over to the people that were already running everything with him. The company (Black Tree Gaming Ltd.) is still exactly the same, they just have a new owner/parent company now (Chosen Something). And I’m sure he negotiated ahead of time that they’re limited in how much they can interfere, because I’ve seen nothing on my side indicating they plan to. (There’s no option for me to monetize my mods outside of donations or Patreon, for example.)

Because they don’t need one. They just send a polite email asking for everything on Person X and they get an email back with EVERYTHING that person’s ever done on any of Google’s services.

Problem solved. No Backdoor or Warrant needed.

Cellebrite was used to crack the first Trump shooter’s phone. At the time, they openly talked about the latest iPhone being uncrackable and still in the “In Research” phase. So if the shooter had one, they’d have been screwed.

A good example: their SN30 Pro has a bad bluetooth chip in it that makes Xinput support really laggy (I don’t know the specifics). It’s been years now, and had a few firmware updates, but there’s still been no fix. It works great for everything else though, so I still keep it around.

Just a warning for anyone thinking of buying one after reading this…