ITT: Odradek has changed his privacy policy

Here is a link you won't click on, and won't read

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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I click on them mainly to see which companies are applying the new rules to everybody equally and which companies are choosing to be assholes and only apply the new rules to the European Union where they're mandated to
  • On the topic of internet privacy stuff:

    Steam recently made all profiles default to not showing the games on the associated account. Previously, hiding one's games list was only possible by making the entire profile private, but it's now possible to have an otherwise public profile that just doesn't show what games you have or have played recently.

    It's still unknown (and there's no consensus judgement call among the userbase) whether this change was made in response to privacy laws, or to stifle the sales figure estimation site known as SteamSpy, which crawled public profiles and then applied some statistical methods in order to estimate how many people owned or recently bought a given game.

    Incidentally, fellow digital distributor and competitor GOG recently (not sure exactly when though; I haven't been following it religiously) released its own social features recently, which includes a games list.
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