B1tF1ghter: If the privacy policy (which is btw very incomplete) is of use then yes.
About the "selling" part, honestly, I don't know and you won't either unless you have undercover insider in GOG.
But they are (according to their privacy policy) transferring data to undisclosed partners (since their privacy policy is written very vaguely in a way that gives to much room for interpretation and therefore to much freedom of usage for GOG itself).
So again, you've brought up that they could be selling it, but really there's no proof. For a person who seems well versed in legal proceedings, you do realize defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty with proof? Not to mention it's nearly impossible to do nearly anything on the internet involving a personal account without having to agree to a privacy policy. Anyway, I too a look at their trusted partners and brackets with its direct effects on average folks like me:
Operations:
- Zendesk Inc. for customer service (only see it in email addresses when contacting support, otherwise no direct effects)
- Google AdWords for online advertising (don't see anything with adblockers, so no direct effects)
- Google Surveys for optional surveys (don't do surveys except for customer support responses)
- GetResponse for email deliveries (optional if you don't sign up for newsletters)
- Analytical tool companies (could be anything ranging from Google Analytics to Tableau, no direct effects)
- Error tracking and crash reporting (I'll usually refund a game if the crashes are unbearable)
- Gamedevs / publishers if you activate their cosmetic "DRM" with their platforms (I don't care about cosmetic "DRM" in my single player games and if I do care, I'll just mod it in)
- Data storage companies for cloud saves (what are these guys going to do? make fun of how many hours it took me to beat Trails in the Sky FC?)
- Other companies for legal, tax, audit, and accounting (needed to actually do business)
GWENT (not a concern if you don't play this):
- CD Projekt if you play competitions
- Anti-cheating companies
Payment (obviously needed to ensure trust between users and GOG):
- Payment providers
- Banks and financial institutions
- Anti-fraud service providers
All of this seems pretty reasonable to me considering other legitimate companies are doing the exact same thing. Have you tried contacting GOG Support regarding these privacy issues and seeing what they have to say instead of presuming they're doing these things based on your work experience with other "shady" companies?
Basically you are saying that it is in your opinion not a problem (in general) because it's not a problem for YOU, nor you care, plus you don't ACTUALLY know how far this data can be used [...] But bashing others solely because they do care is just plain wrong. .
First, I'm not bashing you except for your terrible writing style, so stop getting high off your persecution complex fantasy and your moral high horse. I do want to care, but you're not giving any good reasons for other people to care.
What I'm trying to understand is how this data will be used later against me using recent historical examples. But from what I'm understanding with your comments, you're telling me to do my own research by reading more privacy policies, books with "actual researches" but no references to any specific books, to look at what other companies not directly connected with GOG, and to take your non-cited word on it instead of providing any examples of probability and consequences in any risk reports. If you know profiling data "can be used very far", then please explain to me what they can do.
Seriously, I can ring alarms about all the PPCPs and other micropollutants in your local water supply that has the potential to affect your hormone system and other long-term health effects in many different ways. This is widely suspected by wastewater experts, but without any direct links and effects, people are going to think we're all just crying wolf.
It does not however invalidate valid concerns. [...] I may fail to explain to you importance of privacy, how data can be used, and how people should not be forced to "pay with data" for "free" things, but my failure does not invalidate validity and existence of the points.
I'm trying, but you're not doing a very good job at explaining or citing data. What use is there in degrees or work experience if you can't teach or persuade people to agree with your ideas?
Well yes, because they are already fed with the biggest nonsense one can find, with BS shoved into them since young age, so then when they eventually (hopefully) meet someone that is actually right they will just fight and ignore him since they are to deep in their comfort zones to be able to accept the fact that they were taught wrongly and therefore they are far less capable of accepting changes.
I was referring to young people with higher education. No idea what kind of philosophical talk you're talking about.
Well what do you suggest then?
Typing normally like the rest of us? This isn't rocket science. And if it was, it'd still be in professional writing as per journal articles.
Have you ever considered I wasn't always doing it in these (specificly GOG's) forums? [...] Maybe it's just my lack of luck but this is my experience here and the consequences in my different writing patterns follow that. [...] I just know that major amount of users in these specific (once again: specificly GOG forums) pay less attention than on many other forums and some form of highlighting here seems to be required more than on some other forums.
And this has literally nothing to do with my manners.
If you have to use big caps to get your point across, you're either talking to the wrong audience or you're being condescending. I'll let you decide which one that is.
Ah, I envy your ability to casually ignore relevant parts of your own comparisons :P
In a work space there are rules you have to abide to, when you are for example required to pay attention to the ENTIRE email with all the wording in it to the smallest bit.
Whereas on the forums, especially apparently GOG forums, people pay little to no attention to exact wording used and often even skip entire segments only to then accuse somebody wrongly or come to wrong conclusions and shout at somebody because of that.
So then that's their fault, why do the rest of us have to be punished because of them? Doesn't give you enough justification for this terrible writing style for the rest of us. It's like a DRM for the rest of us just because a minority of the population can't understand your entire message.
