It might be the answer, but that's not the right question.

Oh this will attract a few of the over entitled elite.

COOKIES!!! *omnomnom*

If you are afraid of cookies, you can give them to me. But we have to be careful to not break the internet.

Ah, thanks.

Appreciate the heads up!

Thanks for the link, I just installed it. ;)

As much as I dislike tracking, I think the fact that you're open about it and help people that dislike it kinda makes up for it. More transparency like this , please :)

Errrrrrrrm...

That isn't what opt out means ;p

That's right! Opting out means: GOG asks if we want it enabled and we can decide by ticking the box that looks the most pretty. Preferably one that reads: "GOG, I like you and you know I come here often, that's why I don't need you to follow me around everywhere I go to. Also, even though I like cookies and it's the perfect time of year for those and all that, I'm kind of fed up by this stuff."

In all seriousness:
Make people opt-in to that. Explain your reasoning, because you haven't done so properly. Explain how the technology works so everyone can understand it and its effects in the long run.

Also the following sentence from the FAQ:
"[...]if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us."

With all due respect, this is nonsense. I shouldn't have to contact you, the information should be provided on that very FAQ. The FAQ offers no helpful advice on how it works, what features require accepting those cookies. What do we, the users, gain in functionality by such change? From reading only what was provided, how can anyone be sure?

Currently, meaning right now, I'm looking at this site using Firefox. I can't find a setting to block specific cookies on a website, only all of them. You can use the Do Not Track-Option, but whether websites abide by its rules isn't a given and not set in stone either. I could block every cookie on GOG, but I can't stay logged in that way.
What annoys me the most is the hands-off reply given for how the opt-out works. I know many sites that use similar services as the ones these cookies provide. I would really appreciate it, if the next reply that any GOG employee gives to this, reflects their ability to empathize with its userbase and to look at the issue from another angle.

For anyone wanting to block most of those tracking things in a sensible manner, I recommend using Privacy Badger provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I'm sorry if this reads like a rant to you, it kind of is as far as I can tell, the lack of information and/or communication is disconcerting to me. I don't like being tracked for nothing. I don't want to gift data related to myself to corporations that I have nothing to do with, less so if it isn't made abundantly clear from the get-go, who I'm dealing with, what data they gather and why, and how they handle mentioned data while and after processing it.

Heyho.

Midoryu
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André Gide(1869-1951), French author

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No, thank you. I prefer it enabled by default and if I decide to disable it, I can do so manually on my own.