imo, it’s because people are making a bigger fuss about this than it deserves,
it’s why i called it an everyday thing, because it’s no different than anything/everything else, yet this gets called out so strongly, like games were some sacred place that were “pure”, free from analytics, “but fine everywhere else”
you don’t get to be upset about “this” if you aren’t upset about “that”, i don’t see people calling for legislation to ban cookies or tracking or ad analytics, i don’t even see people remotely phased by any online website that employs the exact same regular features, or anything other device, electronically operated thingy or digital gizmo
but this is suddenly spyware, malware and “back doors into my system+complete breach of trust” -despite being the exact same thing as all the rest, but this is the “baddie”
i’m not debating whether or not it’s right, tho it’s not illegal(supposedly), even if those aren’t related
i’m just saying calm down, there is nothing going on here, nothing new, nothing “dangerous” at least not any more/different from all the other companies that’s mining your data on a regular basis, that they don’t care about, -why aren’t they out screaming at them, to abandon their ways too. It’s completely hypocritical do distinguish between them like that
so don’t go “wiping your drives or burn your steam accounts”,
-or suddenly swear off some game/dev that did nothing out of the ordinary, or purposely nefarious, the notion seems like pure hysteria to me.
No, a couple of people got mopey about “muh privacy” despite it “never” being an issue before, and only because (given the timing i assume) to comply with the gdpr, updated their eula, (-and maybe made the legalese sound a bit ominous), despite nothing having changed, and similar notes had been seen before elsewhere regardless.
sure you could, even if a bigger task ofc, people just don’t,
but more to the point, they don’t call out the other “spying” at all(maybe too all encompassing, but the “regular” stuff don’t get called out at least)… Look how facebook didn’t even get called out for “spying”, but merely mishandling data/access after their debacle, the “essence” of this is still there…
there is a difference (imo) between making a fuss in the sense of “i don’t like, approve/support this”, vs going on the bandwagon and start talking about malware, bad devs, “compromised system” and “torches & pitchforks”
what i mean was “stay calm, don’t go full 4chan”, just as a gentle reminder that this didn’t deserve to go there “here”
yes, i literally can, because it’s an everyday thing ,“innocent”(depending on how one feel about those things ofc), vs making it into a conspiracy theory, like people were doing with this (not on chrono, i just ofc wanted to point out it shouldn’t go that far). so it’s “both”, but one of them, is not fitting the scope of the “scandal”
Since there is no more “conspiracy” or foul play here than there is whenever someone opens their browser and on their first page gets their data saved + ad tracked
i’m not saying “because it happened everywhere it excuses it”, -but it’s legal, and you don’t get to suddenly, X time later, get all pitchfork, torch and tinfoil hat, when you’ve had no problem the last 10 years not giving a fck about anything/anywhere else -about the very same thing (not meaning you as in “you” fraggles/singular there)
this is what i meant about the gamer/pc entitlement, treating this like this is something special, when it’s not only not, but they didn’t give a sht before with all the other games, or those that didn’t use redshell but something else
you don’t get to “suddenly” be up in arms about this “tiny” thing, when there are such shitty privacy violations around on regular places, that those same people dgaf about, it comes off sorta as this very childish negative “gamer”-thing at times, everytime it’s about “a game” -imo with this particular gamer grievance at least
i might not agree with devs using analytics tools, but how the heck where “these guys” supposed to even know anyone “suddenly” might find fault with what they were doing, when nonone had said anything for the past Xyears, either in the direct related industry, or even the data gathering scene “at large”
and you are right, nothing gets changed if no one speaks up, but it was there because noone had spoken up before/not cared “enough” before, until it was plastered more directly in their face vs any other data grabber they don’t mind online/device/app/whatever that’s just the usual “ok to accept and move on”
this is a subject that’s extremely easy to just “bandwagon” or go in mild paranoia direction, because of the moniker with saturated negative connotations; “spying”, despite not warranting such, (depending on pref/pov) vs “everything else” you got going on in your digital world “anyway”, -for most people at least.
I don’t mean to belittle anyones privacy rights/concern,
my voice was just merely, no need to push this up like “the others”, -that probably sit on their iphone using twitter while being logged into their google account on “oem” win 10 bloatware laptop browsing targeted content with a free proxy, while playing an appstore f2p game, sharing their concerns about “privacy”…
don’t know if that came off as less condescending and antagonistic 
anyways, my overall grumpyness had no bearing being directed at you guys despite this subject or not, and for that i do apologize, it’s more the “situation”/circumstances of it, which you don’t deserve me composing myself in a hostile manner since that’s not what i was really after here
, especially when i’m not out to fight, but get “my humble” point relayed in a manner that might also make (hopefully), sorta sense without starting ww3, even if not agreeing with me
