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[–] NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml 84 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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.