Can I not search for both?

No one needs to pay them. Not being treated like garbage is sufficient.

I don’t buy anything except indie games anymore. Sad but every mainstream video game studio is trying to fuck their own consumers now in their own special ways.

Not really, no

Spending less money doesn’t necessarily mean you “cheaped out”. Spending more money does not guarantee reliability.

You may not have liked it and it may not have been great but it likely got the job done perfectly fine.

Again, there is no trade-off. If you want to just plug your phone in and be tethered to a wall, you can still do that.

The NSA collects all kinds of information. That is an absolute pittance compared to the amount of data collected when it is required by law…

Like this is not that complicated.

Yes, it absolutely is, because the US government does not require companies by law to hand over any and all information they collect to them.

You can run https://owntracks.org/ but you need a server to run it on.

They can support both…Only 1 takes considerably more effort and with a tiny fraction of the userbase to sell it to.