I can't even download anything without having to sign away my email address (which is already completely cluttered) and apparently there's no workaround that doesn't involve stealing someone else's premium API key. While Nexus themselves says that it's to prevent mod theft and plagiarism, it clearly didn't work because Nexus themselves said that theft is rampant on their site in a post addressing the issue. Making security more annoying will only deter righteous people from signing up.Rampant censorship is pretty much the norm, even though said mods only actually affect people who actually downloaded it on a local level. Want to do away with pronoun nonsense? Nope, banned. Want to slip in and download a mod that merely adds more fish to Stardew Valley before slipping out? Nope, you have to log in and sign away your personal data. While I never used the download (because I CAN'T use it; it's behind a login wall), I've heard that it's capped at a measly 3 mb/s, which is as slow as a snail. If an adblocker is used like the Brave Browser, it is capped at a 1.5mb/s which is even worse. And I've heard that premium only lets you download at 8 mb/s which is practically a scam, especially if you have 50mb/s as a default.
