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Posted May 02, 2018
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drmike: You may want to consider directing your comments directly to GoG staff. Like most support online forums, it;s just your fellow customers here and there's little to no staff interaction here:
I did, although I'm not expecting any useful response there either...
Posted May 02, 2018
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In case you hadn't seen it yet, this move by gog spawned the following wishlist entry:
Set all privacy-related options to most secure by default. As private by default is a GDPR requirement, I just don't know what gog is thinking... :/

There's also:
Disable "view profile" function for customers who care for their privacy! (this one has now actually been implemented; the original implementation didn't even have the ability to disable profiles completely).
Posted May 02, 2018
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Barefoot_Monkey: It's good that we can disable them if we want to, at least. But I hope that they soon let us control what is shared so that we can have profiles and privacy at the same time, because aside from displaying way too much private information the profiles really are very nice.
I agree.
The profiles as such are nicely done.
It's only the "privacy-leaking" aspect, that I abhor absolutely.
The profiles should've never been allowed to see the light of day under these conditions.

Edit: btw - I haven't received an official email from GOG about the existence of my profile, yet - I got only aware of it through the "pre-announcement-thread" by elcook and the threads regarding the breach of privacy.
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Posted May 02, 2018
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BreOl72: The profiles as such are nicely done.
It's only the "privacy-leaking" aspect, that I abhor absolutely.
The profiles should've never been allowed to see the light of day under these conditions.
Oh yeah, I have absolutely no problem with the profile feature itself. I don't care for it, but I also don't object to it. It's just the crude and disgusting lack of regard for privacy and regulations like GDPR that I have a problem with.

Here's to hoping that the GDPR will be able to accomplish what it was created to do.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Tallima: Even if your profile was set to probate but you had a friend whose was set to public, people could still get your info. That has since been fixed.
How has this been fixed?
Posted May 02, 2018
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misteryo: How has this been fixed?
The new option to disable your profile keeps you off friends' friend lists too. Not an ideal solution, but it gives you a way to avoid the leak.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by Barefoot_Monkey
Posted May 02, 2018
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TazzieDevil: Their legal and privacy email addresses should also be fair game for dissatisfied customers.
We were told to send comments to their privacy@ email address.

They don;t respond to their legal@ email address.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Tallima: Even if your profile was set to probate but you had a friend whose was set to public, people could still get your info. That has since been fixed.
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misteryo: How has this been fixed?
Uh oh. Still not fixed? I heard it had been but haven't checked.
Posted May 02, 2018
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misteryo: How has this been fixed?
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Barefoot_Monkey: The new option to disable your profile keeps you off friends' friend lists too. Not an ideal solution, but it gives you a way to avoid the leak.
Gotcha.
Posted May 02, 2018
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gogtrial34987: In case you hadn't seen it yet, this move by gog spawned the following wishlist entry:
Set all privacy-related options to most secure by default. As private by default is a GDPR requirement, I just don't know what gog is thinking... :/
Thanks for the link! :-)
Posted May 02, 2018
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It's actually another case of several of us longtimers and newer members getting upset because our info is being mishandled again and others crying "What's the big deal?"

I used to want full transparency on the web because of all the idiots I dealt with, and wanting them to have repercussions for their actions, but now it scares me because most of the web is more mentally ill than me.

It's kind of like people who post their daily schedules on social media and then are surprised when they're the victim of a home invasion, and even further surprised if they're in certain states here in the US, when they get sued for defending themselves against crooked bastards trying to take their stuff.

You either step up for your privacy now, or shut up when no one has privacy in another 5-10 years.
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