You are conflating the two meanings of free. Pirated software does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.
That being said I've seen a few indie game studios making pro-piracy statements or even putting the game on torrent networks themselves. But these are the one that deserve the most to be paid.
What's the game?
My next phone is definitely going to be a Pixel for this reason. But my current one is not even 6 years old so I'll wait a bit.
It has some deal breaking limitations:
While the code being open is good you still have to rely on trust.
I certainly don't have the time to review to code of each extension I use. And even then, we have no garanties that the extension distributed through the browser stores has the same code.
You can see the issue was opened on august 18th but the responsible commit was only made on the 19th. So the code was pushed the extension users before it was made available on the repository. Open code is of no help here.
Here's what the video is based on: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/
I get not watching the video, I didn't, but why reply then? It's obvious you would be off the mark. Also, sometimes the description is enough to get what a video is about, here it was.
It just showed the developer is not to be trusted.
I agree, there are a bunch of annoying limitations. But it's better than nothing. To me the best vim based browser is qutebrowser, too bad it's using chromium.
They do kill uBlock Origin. The Lite version is a different extension.
I can't, I forgot most of it. But a little search returned some results:
But it's also true that sometimes it's not done with a pro-piracy stance but they would just rather have it pirated than bought through key-resellers as these can hurt indy-game dev a lot.