Canuck_Cat: How is it not a solution? You segment your junk mail from your real email, which is what most intermediate users have been doing for years. What on earth is GOG going to do with that telemetry for the time between subscribing and unsubscribing? And how much data is a throwaway email account actually worth?
B1tF1ghter: It's not, it's very simple why.
It's because it does not change the fact that you are sharing something, it only changes which account you share it from.
Also, it's pretty hilarious that majority seems to think that the only thing they get with this is the email address.
This isn't some sort of gaming news site where you subscribe to a newsletter - where doing so would net them mostly the email address (aside from IP and script based analytics data) - here you are doing this while logged in to whatever account you are using and EVERYTHING resolving around telemetry of that account can amount to general "consumer profile" shared with "partners" - and if you don't use VPN, different browser agent, and a bunch of other obfuscation methods when "hopping accounts" then it's very easy to associate info from one account with info from another - and before you say "they cannot" - watch them do that under guise of "telemetry for the sake of better user experience" - and since GOG does not follow many privacy rules in general then they are pretty likely to aggregate such "similarly looking" data from same IP address.
Also, pixel trackers, and 3rd party telemetry/analytics scripts being loaded within those html-based emails.
The exact scope of what is being collected is not specified anywhere (which fact is a GDPR violation by itself).
And it's definitely much more than just email address even solely because of the fact of account login.
There also seems to be general lack of a form for data deletion which the lack of it is a GDPR violation btw.
Canuck_Cat: Also, why do you keep on CAPITALIZING certain WORDS? Every time you POST like this, I feel like I'm back on FACEBOOK again reading a family member or friend's POLITICAL RANT and I'm more INCLINED to DISMISS it.
B1tF1ghter: Actually, I am doing so because it's way faster than using GOG's BB code.
The explanation is that simple.
Canuck_Cat: This writing style (...) damages your CREDIBILITY.
B1tF1ghter: Only for those people who *somehow* get offended by this.
Canuck_Cat: This writing style suggests UNHINGED mentality
B1tF1ghter: Do you REALLY think this could be the only reason for someone to write like this?
I got profoundly tired of using BB code on specificly GOG forums due to it's cumbersomeness and the fact that GOG's CMS does not auto complete those when you forget even one (if you do then CMS will just either hang indefinitely and not post your post or it will screw the entire message from open tag onwards if closing tag is missing), so I eventually mostly stopped using it in favor of using capitals for the same purpose.
Canuck_Cat: Weren't you taught this internet etiquette back in primary or middle school?
B1tF1ghter: I don't know in what country you attended those, but such things were certainly not taught in my schools, certainly not at the time when I attended them anyway (which was a LONG time ago).
Also at the time when I was in those internet at private households was not as popular in that specific country (in which I was then) as it is now.
apehater: dear gog management i prefer to NOT pay with my data for free stuff, the same goes for stuff i've paid for!
so would you mind and STOP to try to f*ck me in the *ss!!!!!!!!
B1tF1ghter: Don't worry, GOG forum community will gladly do that in GOG's stead by mass-downvoting you (and people with same point of view) solely because you have a different take on privacy than them ;)
twillight: I'd prefer over giveaways accessibility to the library.
I mean who still has winXP and other such OP nowdays? But ton of games are locked in that vault.
B1tF1ghter: What are you talking about?
The first 2 games definitely do work on Windows systems in between XP and 10.
And if they don't work on 10 then it's not really devs fault per se - devs made these games very long time ago - and it's Microsoft that keeps dropping libraries people are actually using and need them for running older software.
twillight: Also, please someone standardize the hardware-requirements please, because the whole industry is very anti-consumer, and just pushes you to
those sites even just to test the bloody games, so you don't waste your money on something that'll just not work on your machine.
B1tF1ghter: Yes, well, as long as there will not be any platform enforced guidelances in regards to that then that predicament will continue.
All well and good, but tracking data hidden in the HTML of an email can't proc if you don't open or preview the email. Unless something tells the code to go, it doesn't. That's like telling me that someone coded a virus, and him reading the code out loud has infected our systems. I know you're particular about your privacy, but you're also a little paranoid. Code can't just activate from nothing; HTML has to be parsed to do anything.
