That happened to me in the reddit exodus, I switched to Lemmy and faced a lot of analysis paralysis, ended up in Lemmy.world out of spite and then I regretted my decision.

So yeah, in my experience it’s bad UX design, it felt like gatekeeping tbh.

Yeah, I’ve ended up setting up VLANS in order to not deal with encryption

Thanks for the detailed description, I was actually planning to replace my ISP’s router with pfsense/opnsense (I still don’t know which one to choose) so knowing that I can block them from accessing the internet completely gives me some peace of mind.

The “it’s not fair we pay for these games for them to then be pirated” says it all, it’s not about the company becoming bankrupt because of piracy, it’s because they don’t want to feel bad once they have been scammed with a half made game that others have gotten for free. Because a half made game should be worthless