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===Razer Synapse===
Razer peripherals require the application '''Synapse''' for most configuration of such things such as mouse resolution, [[backlighting]] and keyboard macros.
Synapse 2 had been available for [[macOS]] while newer peripherals require Synapse 3 which is for [[Microsoft Windows]] only.

Synapse stores profiles on an Internet "cloud" server, and requires the user to log in to an account for full functionality of their peripherals.
Synapse has received a lot of criticism for being a "cloud" application. Not only because of nuisance of having to log in often, but also because it would have the sort of issues with security, availability and privacy that often plague cloud applications.
Current revisions of Synapse 3 allows locally stored profiles and a "Guest mode" to bypass the login.

Synapse has been criticised for its size, both on disk and its memory consumption.
It also has a reputation of not being stable: either that servers go down, causing the application to not function properly, or that the application often crashes.

Synapse has also been criticised for absurd amounts of network traffic.<ref name="redditsynapse3data">Razer subreddit on Reddit—[https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/j2kby6/razer_central_service_is_killing_my_internet/ Razer Central Service is killing my internet]. Thread started 2020-09-30</ref>