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GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out

posted by chromas on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:59PM   Printer-friendly

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

This is not a great time to be tone deaf about privacy. Between Facebook's rapid fall from grace to the grand launch of the EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy legislation next month, people are more sensitive than ever about their personal information.

Into this climate, Warsaw-based GOG -- Good Old Games, owned by CD Projekt Group -- launched a user profiles feature that many feel lacks important privacy guards, such as the ability to completely hide your profile, as well as the fact that it's opt-out rather than opt-in, and that the site announced it in a forum post (where many won't see it) rather than a blast email.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:44PM (#671920)

    For those of us who grew up in the 'Media is tangible proof of your ownership/license'. Everybody else can revoke you at will now, but only GOG purchases or pirated copies of games are 'future proof' as far as installation and playability goes.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:23PM (#671932)

    Yup! That is why I buy from them as much as possible and I'm sure it is the same for many users. That mentality probably overlaps the privacy oriented pretty heavily.