I sometimes wonder what will happen when EAC, that has root access to millions of PCs, gets compromised or has grunty employee and pushes malicious update
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That’s right. I’m not lying at all when I say that none of my friends care about privacy. It’s actually quite frustrating.
Yup, same here. As long as it’s convenient, my friends/family don’t care what is taken from them.
Then the death squads will come in, and they’ll ask ‘how could this possibly happen!?’, getting fucking pissed or saying “we couldn’t have known!” when you answer, and offer an ‘i fucking told you so’ in line for the camps.
You’re there too, because they tagged you in everything.
Crowdstrike 2.0
It probably spys on you already.
The company that makes the Overwolf game launcher is an Israli cyber security company that gets money from the US.
Tencent spys on people for China through a lot of the games they own.
Holy fuck I did not know about Overwolf. That’s the last time I download something from my, apparently, dipshit friend (no, this is not the only stupid thing he’s done).
I think it’s kind of ironic you call your friend apparently a dipshit for not knowing something you also didn’t know… pot calling the kettle black & all.
from my, apparently, dipshit friend (no, this is not the only stupid thing he’s done).
Reading comprehension is hard. I get it.
Hey, maybe your friend didn’t know either!(nor did i😭)
Yes that’s the problem, he doesn’t know a lot of things. He also doesn’t seem very keen on learning them.
He’s young, so I still have hope for him but god damnit he’s stupid and a potential hazard apparently.
the game’s store page doesn’t mention that it requires root access, like it does for some other games. am i missing something?
edit: the words “root” and “level” (ctrl+f’d each one separately) don’t appear anywhere in the EULA. “access” shows up in a couple spots that definitely are NOT talking about root level access. i’m all about outrage over enshittification, but so far this sounds like bullshit
Maybe it’s hidden in the in-game eula and they’re using their launcher to collect all that info before we even get to agree or disagree.
I’ll just stick to playing my console copy
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If you’re worried about personal data collection then I have some bad news for you…
Every government and corporation has some data on us no matter how we like it. I was referring to my Xbox 360 copy which is totally offline.
Ok so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted
Probably because borderlands 4 is on the horizon and sweat-gland randy caught some flag for tweets.
My guess is that it was planed to be good PR.
Publisher made it free to propagate their spyware.
I think it’s up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.
Why isnt Steam banning them? Munny?
I’m assuming the post is actually about DRM operating at ring 0. That’s not really root level though. That’s kernel level. Root is still operating in user-mode and politely asking the kernel to interact with hardware.
But it doesn’t have the mandatory kernel level disclaimer either.
I did some more reading on this, and it apparently isn’t due to DRM, its about an update to ToS that occurred in April. The update expands data collection for advertising and forced-arbitration. Arguably that’s worse than kernel-level DRM. DRM can be ripped, legal shenanigans can’t.
Sure, but it also seems like it’s data that you offer up via a 2K account, which I don’t have. I have a user name tied to my Steam ID, and that’s about it.
You think that will stop this from spreading like cancer?
I noticed too.
I didn’t enjoy the Handsome Collection but free is free. Thanks for sharing.
A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.
Doesn’t the screenshot you posted explain what’s going on?
lemmy yet again falls for the ragebait hook line and sinker
Pirates are winning over my empathy.
They’ve been my best friend for years
Piracy never gave me up, never let me down
They would never turn around and desert me
Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?
It’s because Take Two came out with a fuck-you-in-the-ass EULA for all their games. I actually look forward to boycotting someone, there’s too much free and discounted shit everywhere
I checked the Steam depots. It seems the game files haven’t been updated since 2022. All that seems to have changed is some license agreement in February. Seems to be a thing across take two games, and not specific to borderlands 2.
Basically nothing has changed in real terms for this game. Maybe borderlands 4 might have draconian DRM, who knows.
They can drop updates anytime after they made sure to have you accept the spyware.
I doubt it though, the game will be 13 years old this year. It wouldn’t make financial sense for them to bother.
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On one side of the ring, greedy corps which want to profile you better than the NSA does. On the other, drama-hungry and social networks-fueled outrage culture.
That’s how an old game giveaway backfires and becomes the scandal of the day.
