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Posted April 30, 2018
Activity Feed • Gameplay Stats • Personalization


UPDATE: We've added a new option to the Privacy settings in GOG Profiles - from now on you can turn off your profile on GOG entirely, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This also means that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, even if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Privacy & Settings” options, under „Privacy” tab.



We just introduced a new feature on GOG.COM: User Profiles – a social way to share what you and your friends are up to. See what your friends on GOG are playing, achieving, and sharing across four sections – Feed, Profile, Games and Friends.

Your Feed is the centerpiece of your Profile. Here, you’ll see which games your friends have been playing, all sorts of achievements and milestones, as well as general thoughts, screenshots, and forum activity. You can dispense your approval at whim and share your own stuff as well!

Your Profile is all about you and your gaming accomplishments. It's a summary of your activity, like the time you've spent in your games , your latest achievements (and just how rare they are among other users), as well as a glimpse at what your most active friends have been up to.

If you want to know more about your Games, you need to hit the the third tab. It contains a list of all the games you own on GOG, together with stats like time spent in-game and your progress towards unlocking the achievements. Sort the list, compare stats with your friends, and get some healthy competition going.

Finally – your Friends: get a general summary of their achievements and hours played. Here you'll also see which games are the most popular among your friends right now, so you can join them in multiplayer or find something you might enjoy yourself.

Of course, your profile comes with some sweet personalization options, choose a wallpaper from your game collection and share a few words with the world.

User Profiles are available for all GOG.COM users. Your personal gameplay stats like achievements, time played and milestones depend on GOG Galaxy, but if you’re not using the optional client you can still use the feed, post in it and interact with your friends.

Launching profiles also means adding new privacy settings on our end. You'll find three new Privacy options in your account's „Privacy & settings” area. These settings allow you to set the visibility for your profile summary, your games, your friends, etc.
So what are you waiting for? There's so much room for activities!
Posted May 01, 2018
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Ansjh: Hi! Please add a way to redirect to a user's profile via their GOG User ID. This will allow developers using the Galaxy SDK to open profiles of players in lobbies in the browser.
Hello.
You should consider making this a wish on GOG's community wishlist for new features rather than letting that idea get buried here. ;)
Posted May 01, 2018
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took them long enough.

next time try to ask before doing something that stupid again.
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Posted May 01, 2018
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robertgg: took them long enough.

next time try to ask before doing something that stupid again.
They did ask. Then they did it anyway.
Posted May 01, 2018
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Even Steam has the option of never creating a profile, but GOG makes it opt-out only LUL. I really think GOG will go the route of Steam in the future and start allowing DRM on their platform. They might even make Galaxy the DRM system itself with the excuse it's for multiplayer games only. Thank god you can backup installers.
Posted May 01, 2018
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Although I appreciate the introduction of a disable option, it still seems to be a half-assed effort at best, given that the "opt-out" model did not change.
Posted May 01, 2018
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Serren: Reading comprehension must not be one of your strong points. That was the first and only post I made on this mess.
And understanding context must not be yours, else you'd probably guess I'm referring to the whole group of whiners and not you only. ;)
Posted May 01, 2018
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yogsloth: Awesome.

For those who like the profiles, you can have 'em. For those of us that don't, we can just switch 'em off. Choice is all we ever wanted.

Works for me.
If only everyone in the world was easy like Sunday morning...
Posted May 01, 2018
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Joe788ac2: I just now found out about all this "Profiles" nonsense. Why THE HELL is this opt-out rather than opt-in?! Every privacy option should have been completely turned off from the get-go, and the entire thing should have been optional to anyone who wants it in the first place, much like the client. I did not expect GOG to act in this way. [...]
Sorry you have to learn about this like this, Joe788ac2. For the last 7 days a big chunk of your data that was previously private was shared with the public without proper notice or your expressed consent. Without a doubt every single data collector out their hooked up a bot to a GOG account and collected our data.

You can set all your privacy settings to private and still show some information or turn off your profile entirely here. But the damage is already done.

Also, this:
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Gersen: I have seen peoples saying that multiple times, but is it actually official or is it just the fallacy of "Gog uses Facebook authentication API as an optional authentication method; Gog has trusted partners; therefore Facebook is a Trusted partner"
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Pangaea666: Facebook are specifically mentioned in the Privacy Policy document of 25 April 2018. Mostly in relation to Facebook Connect, but with the huuuuge black hole of:

[i]Data is gathered strictly in accordance with the social
network(s)’ terms and conditions, so check your privacy settings
on Facebook.[/i]

I hope people don't use that idiotic feature. I'm sure other data flows in both directions without it, but it should at least minimise the danger of personal information on the loose.

Of course, you also have this nugget under Trusted Partners:

[i]Social media platforms for the purpose of personalized and
targeted communication;[/i]
Here are two of my old explanations, though they are incomplete, as more and more horrors surfaced. My initial assessment of the situation is post #344. I would link it to you directly, but GOG's award winning forum technology strongly disagrees with that idea...

Overall:
- Some users seemed happy about the update,
- some users were outraged about the update,
- some stopped buying games (at least until GOG introduced today's fix),
- some users postulated that they didn't understand what the problem was (but didn't stick around to read the replies),
- Some users insisted (and are still insisting) that this update was not only good for the platform but also (for lack of a better word) scolded other users. Their biggest complaint has been the unhappiness of other users with the situation. I still have no idea how this even makes sense...
- The vast majority of GOG's userbase stayed silent, like they always have, giving analytics as little to work with as possible.

Right now you could disable your profile entirely and either:
- Not giving a crap about what GOG profiles possibly shared (as was/will be pointed out by StingingVelvet from the future).
- Stay on GOG as a paying customer and hope they will spontaneously develop better ethics. (Plus any form of stress/grief/anger/etc management you see fit.)
- Stay on GOG for future patches and giveaways but stop buying games.
- Download the installers of your entire library and stop using the site - hoping that nothing bad will happen if you don't log in again.
- Download the installers of your entire library and send a ticket to GOG's support staff to delete your account - hoping that the end of your business relationship will stop GOG from doing any further damage to you.
- Other options might be available, but I'm not made out of time and have stuff to do. This would be a job for GOG's paid staff anyway...

Ultimately you are old enough to make these decisions for yourself. Best of luck!

(And as I was saying previously:
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HeartsAndRainbows: [...] I bet the majority of GOG's users hasn't even logged in since the profiles were added and still displays their information unknowingly - possibly involuntarily.
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[Edit:]
Forgot to add one of the links, like the noob I am...

[Edit 2:]
Added input from the future.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by HeartsAndRainbows
Posted May 01, 2018
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GOG.com: Activity Feed • Gameplay Stats • Personalization

UPDATE: We've added a new option to the Privacy settings in GOG Profiles - from now on you can turn off your profile on GOG entirely, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page.
Thanks!
Posted May 01, 2018
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lostwolfe: i have...so much to say.
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rottenbrain: You obviously seem to have problems, but they seem to be with your life in general, not specifically GOG. You're getting too worked up over bullshit and you're being way over-dramatic.

And yes, as much as you don't want to admit it, you ARE in a minority. And the fact that you apparently demand GOG to fulfill whatever requests you have just shows how egocentric you are. You. Are. In. A. Minority. Making that minority happy will likely make a majority of people unhappy. They're paying customers too. So...instead of empty threats of leaving, be a man and just leave. Nobody will care. GOG will continue doing business. You'll find another DRM-free distributor eventually. Everyone will be happier.
i fail to see where i demanded anything.

i suggested - quite cordially - that the person who wrote the message we got stepped back and read it again. not as gog staff. as a person.

moreover, i am - and this is somewhat ironic, i feel - helping to protect YOU from YOURSELF - because later on, when the privacy stuff bites you in the butt [and it will, cf: cambridge analytica] i won't say "i told you so," because i'm not that sort of person. i'll just be in my corner, lamenting that there were a lot of safeguards we COULD have put into place, but we didn't bother, because gog was so convenient! and it made so much sense to shop there!

your inferences about my life are...interesting. my life is fine. thanks for not-asking-but-i'll-tell-you-anyway.

lastly: the thing is: i liked gog. i'd appreciate it if gog turned from this dark side they're walking toward. my suggestions are suggestions borne out of kindness. am i frustrated with the service? sure. but i genuinely care, or i wouldn't be making these suggestions.
Posted May 01, 2018
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yogsloth: Awesome.

For those who like the profiles, you can have 'em. For those of us that don't, we can just switch 'em off. Choice is all we ever wanted.

Works for me.
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StingingVelvet: If only everyone in the world was easy like Sunday morning...
I just started playing that on my guitar yesterday. It had nothing to do with any of this. :P
Posted May 01, 2018
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Can someone kindly tell me how to delete or at least obscure my profile? I can't go through 99 pages of discussion hoping to find out.

EDIT: found. You can't change that from the profile options, but in "account management" => privacy. Everything should be OFF or "only me" by defo.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by Dogmaus
Posted May 01, 2018
so i bet a serious, dangerous lawsuit helped gog to pull back on that profile shit!
Posted May 01, 2018
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Dogmaus: Can someone kindly tell me how to delete or at least obscure my profile? I can't go through 99 pages of discussion hoping to find out.

EDIT: found. You can't change that from the profile options, but in "account management" => privacy. Everything should be OFF or "only me" by defo.
Did you turn if off because I can still see your # of games.

Okay, now it's gone.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by tinyE
Posted May 01, 2018
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Dogmaus: [...]
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tinyE: Did you turn if off because I can still see your # of games.
To add another datapoint: I can't.

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robertgg: took them long enough.

next time try to ask before doing something that stupid again.
The community literally gave them "feedback for days" (about 4 days worth).
Post edited May 01, 2018 by HeartsAndRainbows
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