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Posted June 20, 2020
Hello!



How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing? I don't remember connecting Galaxy to my Nintendo account, and when I go to the connect platforms option, there are no options for Nintendo networks. I don't mind at all that this happened, I'm just asking because I'm curious.

Having some technical difficulty with uploading images to GoG, which is why I used imgur. I'm not sure if the same image will be posted twice, apologies if it does.

https://imgur.com/a/fO1qdds

https://imgur.com/a/0WEUvIy
Posted June 20, 2020
My worst fear has been realized... Our privacy is no longer safe!! WE'RE DOOMED!!!
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Post edited June 20, 2020 by Verlam
Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: Hello!

How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing? I don't remember connecting Galaxy to my Nintendo account, and when I go to the connect platforms option, there are no options for Nintendo networks. I don't mind at all that this happened, I'm just asking because I'm curious.

Having some technical difficulty with uploading images to GoG, which is why I used imgur. I'm not sure if the same image will be posted twice, apologies if it does.

https://imgur.com/a/fO1qdds

https://imgur.com/a/0WEUvIy
How did you find the game/access the game ? Is it really showing up in your default owned games list?
Because opening it from a general search (which then accesses a list of all games from galaxies general database) brings me to the following page as well (as it is intended):

Game shows up with (empty) activity for me as wll despite not owning it. The connector/platform shows as "Other" and for me as no connector used. Most importantly see the "Mark as owned" (this part was not included in your screenshot)
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Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing?
I noticed a few weeks back that Tyranny was sending achievement information to GOG while I wasn't logged into Galaxy. I have absolutely no idea what clients/games send information to who. Privacy policies are generally written in some dialect of legalese, which I'm not fluent in.
Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: Hello!

How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing? I don't remember connecting Galaxy to my Nintendo account, and when I go to the connect platforms option, there are no options for Nintendo networks. I don't mind at all that this happened, I'm just asking because I'm curious.

Having some technical difficulty with uploading images to GoG, which is why I used imgur. I'm not sure if the same image will be posted twice, apologies if it does.

https://imgur.com/a/fO1qdds

https://imgur.com/a/0WEUvIy
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TT_TT_TT_TT: How did you find the game/access the game ? Is it really showing up in your default owned games list?
Because opening it from a general search (which then accesses a list of all games from galaxies general database) brings me to the following page as well (as it is intended):

Game shows up with (empty) activity for me as wll despite not owning it. The connector/platform shows as "Other" and for me as no connector used. Most importantly see the "Mark as owned" (this part was not included in your screenshot)
It's not showing up in my owned games list, and I'm having some difficulty making it appear on cue. I'm afraid I can't remember if the "mark as owned" button appeared. I can't undo the cropped images as I posted this last night and I just turned on my PC now. I also didn't keep an original save for the screenshots.
Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: It's not showing up in my owned games list, and I'm having some difficulty making it appear on cue. I'm afraid I can't remember if the "mark as owned" button appeared. I can't undo the cropped images as I posted this last night and I just turned on my PC now. I also didn't keep an original save for the screenshots.
Honestly... it sounds like you navigated to Animal Crossing and mistakenly thought that this meant that Galaxy knows you own it (that fits with you not being able to find it on your owned games list).
Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing
It doesn't.
You can add ANY game (in the database) manually to Galaxy, even if you don't have it. There're listed as "Other".
Posted June 20, 2020
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jsidhu762: It's not showing up in my owned games list, and I'm having some difficulty making it appear on cue. I'm afraid I can't remember if the "mark as owned" button appeared. I can't undo the cropped images as I posted this last night and I just turned on my PC now. I also didn't keep an original save for the screenshots.
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SirMrFailRomp: Honestly... it sounds like you navigated to Animal Crossing and mistakenly thought that this meant that Galaxy knows you own it (that fits with you not being able to find it on your owned games list).
I didn't realize that, thanks!
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jsidhu762: How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing
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teceem: It doesn't.
You can add ANY game (in the database) manually to Galaxy, even if you don't have it. There're listed as "Other".
I didn't know that was possible, thanks for the info!
Post edited June 20, 2020 by jsidhu762
Posted July 23, 2020
i found this post because i have exact same question.

i don't utilize GOG as a game manager other than let it run in the background.
but every time i opened it up to use the store Animal Crossing is at the top.

further more is claimed to be played by others.

i also don't have Nintendo accounts linked so i'm curious how people are reporting it in their played activity and its getting pushed to the top of my feed.

imgur.com/a/zzEL0uH
Post edited July 23, 2020 by lostblur
Posted July 23, 2020
This post is not about any specific company or T+C.

Sometime in the last decade the value of personal information became greater than the value of oil (COVID fluctuations not withstanding). ‘Privacy agreement’ often really means <non>privacy agreement or <I waive my>privacy agreement. It’s not supposed to protect you, It’s supposed to protect them so they can collect your private information with your permission.

They make every effort to conceal it in the T+C but a close examination will usually reveal it if it’s there.

EG: “We will never give your information to third parties”.

‘never’ is a long time. Does that mean they can keep your information for ever? Is that what you are agreeing to? And who is ‘we’? This company could change management, ownership or even fold and have it’s assets stripped or hacked. Assets like a database of personal information and activity for a million people, who all agreed. And ‘third parties’ is far too vague to be useful. What exactly is their definition and will it change? You usually also have to agree that the T+C can be changed without notification at any time, rendering the whole thing pointless with regards to any protection it sounds like it’s offering.

With regards to your ‘crossover’ surprise, I’ve seen this sort of thing several times (Yahoo just a few days ago), I think it’s just various databases interacting poorly. It’s a security issue (hackers live for this sort of stuff) and I’m sure it will be patched soon enough, but in the meantime, it does provide an interesting glimpse behind the curtain. Ask yourself, why do they feel the need to conceal the extent of what they know about you, and what other surprises could you be in store for in the future?

(I’m a little worried about all those poor teenagers dreaming of a future in politics or leadership or celebrity, not realising what’s going to happen as soon as the SUN or the MAIL get interested and start ‘doing some searches’.)
Posted July 23, 2020
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lostblur: i found this post because i have exact same question.

i don't utilize GOG as a game manager other than let it run in the background.
but every time i opened it up to use the store Animal Crossing is at the top.

further more is claimed to be played by others.

i also don't have Nintendo accounts linked so i'm curious how people are reporting it in their played activity and its getting pushed to the top of my feed.

imgur.com/a/zzEL0uH
It has nothing to do with you.

I don't have a Nintendo account. I don't own Animal Crossing. I have no interest whatsoever in Animal Crossing. Nothing in my library or recently played games indicates that I could be interested in Animal Crossing. I have no friends on Galaxy or any other platform because I'm not interested in social features of clients.

Yet "recently played by others" shows Animal Crossing for me too. It's just what people are playing right now. We get to see it because Galaxy has no data to present us with more personalized statistics.
Post edited July 23, 2020 by Randalator
Posted July 23, 2020
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lostblur: i found this post because i have exact same question.

i don't utilize GOG as a game manager other than let it run in the background.
but every time i opened it up to use the store Animal Crossing is at the top.

further more is claimed to be played by others.

i also don't have Nintendo accounts linked so i'm curious how people are reporting it in their played activity and its getting pushed to the top of my feed.

imgur.com/a/zzEL0uH
Uninstall galaxy FTW. It doesn’t actually do anything, you can backup files yourself, using your rules and hardware. For a manager get a database. Achievements and time tracking are the most pointless things invented. So save some disk space and delete it and gain true drm free gamer achievement.
Posted July 23, 2020
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jsidhu762: How does Galaxy know I have Animal Crossing?
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ZyloxDragon: I noticed a few weeks back that Tyranny was sending achievement information to GOG while I wasn't logged into Galaxy.
Thats because of the way galaxy.dll works. See my wishlist entry regarding that very issue: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/remove_online_connectivity_from_galaxydll
Or the whole thread about it: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/telemetry

Also, if Im not mistaken, Tyranny is unity game. And unity ITSELF collects basic information about your hardware, ip address and such. You can check their actual privacy policy on their site https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy , but the last time I've seen it, it had the following lines:
I play a game built with Unity software, what should I know?

A: Unity has probably collected some or all of the following information about your device: unique device identifiers (e.g., IDFV for iOS devices and Android ID for Android devices) ); IP address; country of install (mapped from IP address); device manufacturer and model platform type (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, etc.) and the operating system and version running on your system or device; language; CPU information such as model, the number of CPUs present, frequency, and instruction set support flags; the graphics card type and vendor name; graphics card driver name and version (example: "nv4disp.dll 6.10.93.71"); which graphics API is in use (example: "OpenGL 2.1" or "Direct3D 9.0c"); amount of system and video RAM present; current screen resolution; version of the Unity Editor used to create the game; sensor flags (e.g., device support for gyroscope, touch pressure or accelerometer); application or bundle identification ("app ID") of the game installed; unique advertising identifiers provided for iOS and Android devices (e.g., IDFA or Android Ad ID); and a checksum of all the data that gets sent to verify that it did transmit correctly. Some Unity developers use Unity analytics and ad services which collect additional information
Personally, Im always running all third party proprietary software behind firewall, unless required otherwise (say, to play with friends... oh, wait, I dont have any). It solves pretty much all issues regarding *somebody* getting *some* data from your pc without asking
Post edited July 23, 2020 by Gekko_Dekko
Posted July 23, 2020
yeah mines trying to get me to link epic. no i think i won't be linking gog to any other third party or using it as a 'hub'; especially not with it just sort of finding stuff on it's own and basically going hey i hear you like...
Posted July 23, 2020
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borisburke: This post is not about any specific company or T+C.

Sometime in the last decade the value of personal information became greater than the value of oil (COVID fluctuations not withstanding). ‘Privacy agreement’ often really means <non>privacy agreement or <I waive my>privacy agreement. It’s not supposed to protect you, It’s supposed to protect them so they can collect your private information with your permission.

They make every effort to conceal it in the T+C but a close examination will usually reveal it if it’s there.

EG: “We will never give your information to third parties”.

‘never’ is a long time. Does that mean they can keep your information for ever? Is that what you are agreeing to? And who is ‘we’? This company could change management, ownership or even fold and have it’s assets stripped or hacked. Assets like a database of personal information and activity for a million people, who all agreed. And ‘third parties’ is far too vague to be useful. What exactly is their definition and will it change? You usually also have to agree that the T+C can be changed without notification at any time, rendering the whole thing pointless with regards to any protection it sounds like it’s offering.

With regards to your ‘crossover’ surprise, I’ve seen this sort of thing several times (Yahoo just a few days ago), I think it’s just various databases interacting poorly. It’s a security issue (hackers live for this sort of stuff) and I’m sure it will be patched soon enough, but in the meantime, it does provide an interesting glimpse behind the curtain. Ask yourself, why do they feel the need to conceal the extent of what they know about you, and what other surprises could you be in store for in the future?

(I’m a little worried about all those poor teenagers dreaming of a future in politics or leadership or celebrity, not realising what’s going to happen as soon as the SUN or the MAIL get interested and start ‘doing some searches’.)
Third parties can also mean you until sufficiently proved otherwise with a lawyer present as was shown to be the case in Australia when someone tried to access their own metadata records.
As in it's also a way to suppress the discovery of concerns.
You are allowed to see your private information so you can figure out if your prawn account happens to by association guide a possible breach to your major company that would be embarassed by it; but you won't accomplish the task because they can simply act like the see no evil monkeys and pretend like they don't know you until you go away because the cost to exercise your right is too high a gamble for an uncertain payout.

Also a good read
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel[/url])
which has some real world stuff I'm looking at the moment called ERMS.
Post edited July 23, 2020 by MaceyNeil
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