You’re still giving them market share and training yourself in their software. When you need to search up online how to do a gradient, you give views to tutorials for their products.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Even when you pirate their stuff you are giving them things; market share, data, seo pumps, bug reports, data.
You could try putting firewall rules and block it from ever connecting to the internet.
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You’re still giving them market share and training yourself in their software. When you need to search up online how to do a gradient, you give views to tutorials for their products.