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This was taken on my PC using Vesktop client

Edit: Could be alot worse I envisioned popups and such with videos playing etc

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[–] KJ118@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

The first time I saw this was yesterday and I thought it was an April fools joke.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's an opt-out in User Settings under Privacy & Safety.

[–] flyoverstate@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

acting like thatll stay an option is a pretty good joke

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So the way that promotion is worded, if I stream "the finals" to a friend for 15 minutes I'm guaranteed to receive that item, shipping paid for and all, like in a quest? Or are they just baiting and entering you in a lottery?

Seems like an easy way to farm real life merchandise.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's real merch it's in-game items

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That does make way more sense. Though, the ad makes it seem like a (clothing) set and not a skin, but I've never played the finals so I wouldn't know.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Most of the "skins" in The Finals are actually clothing sets, each with interchangeable parts.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Vesktop client

Heh, so you're halfway there already.
Find which CSS class this stupid thing uses, hide it and bye bye forever.
Matter of time until someone makes a plugin to stop the client from fetching new data from these endpoints