Uhhh. I’m gen z and everyone I know knows not to download software from ads.

Where is here? You never said where you’re talking about.

Banning vpns is an authoritarian move for a country. No matter which country.

I read through the comments and can’t see the aggression you talk about.

What’s a natural monopoly? Valve currently has the freedom to implement anything they want within an extent because they’re so popular. If they decided they wanted to charge devs 35% would people stop using it? Probably not. Steam’s monopoly is as bad as any other for the same reason any other monopoly is bad.

Those repackages of libreoffice packages are actually official.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

These versions are free software (as in open source) but there’s a small charge to cover the effort of putting software in the app stores, and to help develop the software (and build our communities).