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GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by alyaza to c/gaming

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[–] thingsiplay 34 points 2 days ago (19 children)

https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program direct link to GOG, because the link provided in the The Verge article is goskimresource that is blocked by my browser extension uMatrix. From the original articles FAQ at GOG:

What about macOS and Linux?

The GOG Preservation Program is currently Windows-only. Our priority is to preserve as many games as possible under the Program, before expanding to other operating systems.

Sad. How about supporting Linux? This would be the right direction to preserve games, as they are no longer tied to the Windows operating system. That's why I use Steam and do not buy on GOG.

[–] Dymonika 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Off-topic: do you have a guide on how to get uMatrix to do this blocking? That sounds great but it looks to be all manual. Do you run it with uBlock Origin?

[–] thingsiplay 2 points 11 hours ago

Yes, I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix active at the same time, on Firefox. Maybe if you are using a Chromium based browser, it does not work the same? After all Google made changes. Otherwise, I'm not sure which setting in uMatrix will cause to block this. Therefore I'm not sure how to help with that at the moment.

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