Breja: I said it so many times already over the course of all this. It has nothing to do with "incriminating". What the data in question is is not the point. "It's not that I have anything to hide. I just have nothing I want you to see". That's how real privacy works. Just because something isn't important, incriminating of sensitive, doesn't mean it's ok to have it be made public without your express permission.
The fact that you no longer even comprehend what real privacy is or why it's important is the best proof of that erosion of privacy I'm talking about. We live in a world where people not only don't treasure their privacy, they no longer even understand the concept. It's downright orwellian.
Trying to honor Jeysie's wish to not be quoted into oblivion, but the major points just keep flying over some people's heads. Maybe that is indeed because, like you both have stated in some form, a rounded sensible concept of privacy can not fit into the square heads the last 20 years have formed.
But literally everyone will have to understand why the facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal was such a horrifying wakeup call: because completely harmless data was mined and used. Your social network, your hobbies, your interests, your everyday chats. Nothing "sensitive" at all. Names and addresses, completely irrelevant to the ploy. But what can be used for targeted marketing can be and in this case was used for manipulating your world view just as well. We should draw the conclusion that we need new guards and new standards.
And literally everyone should muster up some understanding for the disappointment some GOG users feel, as the fight for privacy and the fight against invasive DRM measures are one and the same thing. Partnering up with facebook? "Opt-out" privacy violations? User stats that are always displayed regardless of privacy settings? I'm still hoping it's an April fools joke. They can't be serious. This is all wildly against GOG's much proclaimed company values. We need a sign that these still exist in a form that's not a wildly paradox cardboard backdrop against all manners of Steam, facebook and Polish autocratic government shenannigans.
Jeysie's right when she says that we can't go back to how it was 20 years ago. The internet has changed things forever. That is the truth. Then again, GOG is still holding on to an antiquated idea of game ownership by supplying DRM free installers. Yet concerning privacy, they'd need to instigate that paradigm shift that Jeysie was talking about. They need to make a fucking effort. Instead, they're trying hard to become some form of Steam, without all the AAA publishers of course.
