Jordan UK wrote:Knoyleo wrote:Jordan UK wrote:Also, the Epic Store is the biggest data farming exercise I’ve ever seen, dressed-up in generous give aways. Nothing is ever free.
Really? I mean, I understand that the point of all those free games is to get people onto the store and to get their contact details, but I'm not sure what other data they're harvesting beyond that. It's not exactly Facebook, is it?
Back in March 2019 there was talk of the launcher mining data from other storefronts including games, expenditure, friends lists, playing habits, etc.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/ ... ng-on-you/According to that article, it was creating a hashed file of your Steam data without permission, which is bad, but as data infringement of apps go, there are plenty out there that connect way more. It doesn't even appear to send that data to Epic either, unless you then authorise it.
Can't set anything more recent than that, either.