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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 April 24, 2018
Any chance we could get truly public profiles? I'd like to share my list of games with some people but requiring that they log in (even though I have it set to public) is rather annoying.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by vaindil
Posted April 24, 2018
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Djaron: greying out the link is not enough... you simply has to make the whole resulting page to be empty or void of any info except the username at best

because anyone can get to a profile with the url syntax:
blablablagog.com/u/username
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You are correct: not only the "view profile" function in the forum should be greyed out but THIS
blablablagog.com/u/username
of course should lead to an "empty" page or even better to a page that informs the browser requesting it that this page is either not available because of privacy settings or not existing at all.

In an ideal world even the existence of a user's profile would be hidden/denied when that user has opted out in his/her account settings and direct access to the profile page should then be disabled...
Posted April 24, 2018
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I don't want this GOG. I don't use Galaxy but it looks like GOG created me a profile anyways so I guess its not tied to that unfortunately. I do not want any of my personal info including games I've purchased public. Is there a way to turn this off? As much as I love GOG I hate this and I hate it even more that they just forced a profile on me that is already listing personal info which I in no way gave the okay on. Doing this without permission ain't cool.
Posted April 24, 2018
At least it looks tidy and not cluttered all over the place (any improvement will be implemented if users moaned enough)
Posted April 24, 2018
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RainbowDragon: In an ideal world even the existence of a user's profile would be hidden/denied when that user has opted out in his/her account settings and direct access to the profile page should then be disabled...
I'm a big proponent of privacy as well, but this is a bit much. I haven't read your whole reply thread, so maybe I'm missing some context, but if the page loads and gives you literally no information other than "hey this username is taken" is that really a problem?
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Coot: I don't want this GOG. I don't use Galaxy but it looks like GOG created me a profile anyways so I guess its not tied to that unfortunately. I do not want any of my personal info including games I've purchased public. Is there a way to turn this off? As much as I love GOG I hate this and I hate it even more that they just forced a profile on me that is already listing personal info which I in no way gave the okay on. Doing this without permission ain't cool.
You can make most of the profile private by going to this page and changing the settings accordingly.

https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy
Post edited April 24, 2018 by vaindil
Posted April 24, 2018
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vaindil: You can make everything completely private by going to this page and changing the settings accordingly.

https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy
Not quite "completely private". As has been mentioned, there is still data about your account shown publically even if you set those to "max privacy" (e.g. games owned).

EDIT: s/everything/completely private/
Post edited April 24, 2018 by xyem
Posted April 24, 2018
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vaindil: You can make everything completely private by going to this page and changing the settings accordingly.

https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy
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xyem: Not quite everything. As has been mentioned, there is still data about your account shown publically even if you set those to "max privacy".
Sorry, you're right, I should've clarified. I'll edit momentarily.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Djaron: oh and obviously, if one were going to this game only for the naughty bits, it would be stupid considering the naughtier online ressources available through many widely known url or... simply turning on TV at virtually anytime
Yeah, I'm not sure what the thrill is having it in a game, but it exists.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Not sure that I'm remembering this right, but didn't GOG out the people who owned the most games on the store without asking for their permission once upon a time? My first thought was that this was like that, but on a wider scale. The search feature is useless for actually finding whatever I'm thinking of, though.

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Alaric.us: My point isn't that GOG shouldn't give you privacy — of course it should! What I'm saying, is that this specific circumstance doesn't warrant the catastrophic reaction.
Yeah, but this isn't the first time they've done something to rub people in the wrong way, and that baggage informs the reaction to a certain extent. It's the difference between "someone got hurt in an elevator" versus "someone got hurt in an elevator that Ray Rice was in." Which is an exaggeration, but the point stands that the involved parties and their histories make a difference.

News posts that quickly see a torrent of angry posts are practically a tradition around here, and each time, someone shows up to apologize and recognize that whatever they did was careless/stupid/whatever. And then they promise a fix that takes forever or never happens, and everyone has to either leave or find a way to live with the changes. Over and over again. It's hard to fault people for being cranky anymore.
Posted April 24, 2018
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I'm a big proponent of privacy as well, but this is a bit much. I haven't read your whole reply thread, so maybe I'm missing some context, but if the page loads and gives you literally no information other than "hey this username is taken" is that really a problem?

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@vaindil

The problem I have with the whole profile issue is that we had no choice about it - gog.com just created profiles for us and published our private data, even set the account settings so that everyone could see my list of games, friends, etc. without my consent.

In an earlier post here
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_new_privacy_settings/post540
I have answered to another user who obviously totally agreed with the new (public) user profiles that I do not want to deny these public profiles to those who want them. Anybody may set their profile to public if he/she wants to do so. But enforcing the setting to public is a violation of data protection laws and when a company publishes their customer's data without their consent they are definitely breaching several laws.

Therefore I want gog.com to respect our right for privacy and request the option to opt out in my account settings from a visible profile. That should be a simple on/off setting and everybody who likes the new profile shall be able to continue to use them and have visible profile pages. But if I set that visibility option to OFF I do not want my profile page displayable.
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Posted April 24, 2018
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RainbowDragon: I'm a big proponent of privacy as well, but this is a bit much. I haven't read your whole reply thread, so maybe I'm missing some context, but if the page loads and gives you literally no information other than "hey this username is taken" is that really a problem?

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@vaindil

The problem I have with the whole profile issue is that we had no choice about it - gog.com just created profiles for us and published our private data, even set the account settings so that everyone could see my list of games, friends, etc. without my consent.

In an earlier post here
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_new_privacy_settings/post540
I have answered to another user who obviously totally agreed with the new (public) user profiles that I do not want to deny these public profiles to those who want them. Anybody may set their profile to public if he/she wants to do so. But enforcing the setting to public is a violation of data protection laws and when a company publishes their customer's data without their consent they are definitely breaching several laws.

Therefore I want gog.com to respect our right for privacy and request the option to opt out in my account settings from a visible profile. That should be a simple on/off setting and everybody who likes the new profile shall be able to continue to use them and have visible profile pages. But if I set that visibility option to OFF I do not want my profile page displayable.
That's a fair point, I do agree that they shouldn't have been made so public on launch. My main point though was that a page saying "RainbowDragon has chosen to make their profile private" or whatever shouldn't be an issue. You gain zero information from that other than that the username is taken, which anyone could discover by attempting to create an account with that username. 404 pages are treated differently by search engines and internally, so generating a 404 would just be incorrect. You do exist, you just have a private profile.
Posted April 24, 2018
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RainbowDragon: I'm a big proponent of privacy as well, but this is a bit much. I haven't read your whole reply thread, so maybe I'm missing some context, but if the page loads and gives you literally no information other than "hey this username is taken" is that really a problem?

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@vaindil

The problem I have with the whole profile issue is that we had no choice about it - gog.com just created profiles for us and published our private data, even set the account settings so that everyone could see my list of games, friends, etc. without my consent.

In an earlier post here
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_new_privacy_settings/post540
I have answered to another user who obviously totally agreed with the new (public) user profiles that I do not want to deny these public profiles to those who want them. Anybody may set their profile to public if he/she wants to do so. But enforcing the setting to public is a violation of data protection laws and when a company publishes their customer's data without their consent they are definitely breaching several laws.

Therefore I want gog.com to respect our right for privacy and request the option to opt out in my account settings from a visible profile. That should be a simple on/off setting and everybody who likes the new profile shall be able to continue to use them and have visible profile pages. But if I set that visibility option to OFF I do not want my profile page displayable.
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vaindil: That's a fair point, I do agree that they shouldn't have been made so public on launch. My main point though was that a page saying "RainbowDragon has chosen to make their profile private" or whatever shouldn't be an issue. You gain zero information from that other than that the username is taken, which anyone could discover by attempting to create an account with that username. 404 pages are treated differently by search engines and internally, so generating a 404 would just be incorrect. You do exist, you just have a private profile.
OK, sorry, I guess I did not get your point in your previous post - it's getting late here :-). And I agree with you that a page with no more information than "RainbowDragon has chosen to make their profile private" as a result for a browser requesting something like
https://www.gog.com/u/username
would be fine ...
Posted April 24, 2018
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They already exposed personal info (and it matters not if others think its meaningless info) when they instituted this, not even giving the customer a chance to make things private first before it went live. What bothers me the most really is that it was done without permission. That's the cusp of what bothers me because its the principle of the matter. I've been a customer and fan of GOG for a long time but this was discourteous regardless of whether or not it was just an oversight or what have you. With regards to whether the principle of respecting personal privacy is honored or violated, the damage so to speak has already been done. They need to take steps to put customer security and privacy at the forefront.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Coot
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Tauto: Is my slip showing again?
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Ophelium: I think so.
How in the HELL did you get my picture? Gog you have gone too far.
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