GeForce Experience on my PC requires an account. Sure I can find and install the driver manually, but the convenience of using the software outweighs the privacy concerns (for me).
I really hope that means I can leave my joystick plugged in and my system will properly go to sleep now. That has to have been the most annoying Geforce Experience bug ever.
I mean for me at least, it's not even a privacy concern, it's a fucking hassle. I do not want nor will I ever, in all likelihood, want a Qualcomm account, nor do I want an account on whatever other shit-splat website I'm gonna visit one time every few years to download one thing I need. There is no reason at all to put a download like this behind an account. A captcha MAYBE, if you find your website being hit by bots a lot, I guess? But it's 2024, nearly 2025. Bandwidth is dirt cheap.