I thought it was a title to an article but it turn out it was someone who mistook Lemmy for a search engine
What if it IS a search engine? Maybe there’s a site out there that posts every question to a random fediverse sub!
Matter of fact, let’s make one. We’ll just use scripts to post every question to social media but program it to say the wrong thing first so that it gets instant results when everyone jumps on the “person” who was wrong. Brilliant!
Short answer: yes
Long-ish answer: https://tosdr.org/en/service/180
tl;dr: no more than any other similar company
Read their privacy policy, I guess.
Usually those documents leave many legal back doors open, just in case. It doesn’t automatically mean that they are currently backstabbing you, but they want to have that option available to them. If you see lots of open doors like that, they are there for a reason. An honest company doesn’t need any, whereas a shady company wants all of them.
They can potentially collect a lot of stuff but I dont really see a reason why they would sell / use it for anything besides analytics/marketing internally
Not that long ago, they drastically improved their privacy policy, consent and opt-out capabilities. Is it perfect? No but it has never been better.
Yes obviously. This is their privacy policy. https://store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement/
It wasn’t that long ago they got caught downloading everyone’s DNS caches in real time. That means any website you access, Steam lets Gabe know. Also any website you accessed in the past, even while Steam was off at the time.
I don’t know how trustworthy these people are, but Common.org rated them worse than they did Facebook.Would flatpak mitigate this?
I’m not an expert on Flatpak, but yes, I believe Flatpak comprehensively protects you from applications snooping on your systemd resolve cache. I was talking about the Windows version of Steam in my previous comment.
To be fair what really pissed me about Steam was the push into CS:2 without no regard for anyone (macOS?) or any machine that can’t run it… and a few other similar situations like the SimCity 4 version that is buggy and unreliable unlike the gog one that actually has all the required patches for modern hardware.
Can’t you still get the old counter strike by using the beta channels?
And I mean… Ultimately blame Apple for being a pain in the butt and not supporting vulkan.
Just use Steam Flatpak on Linux. Forget Steam on Windows or Mac.
Yeah having filesystem sandboxing will totally save you from game analytics and tracking, and when you block networking you should have just pirated the games and not felt with Steam in the first place.
Do you even know the problem with Steam? It reads DNS cache from storage to spy on users’ personal Internet browsing habits. Filesystem sandboxing solves that problem. If your problem is game analytics, then you may have much bigger problems on your hands. OP might not be as tech savvy or paranoid as you. And if OP is, consider providing good, non malware 🏴☠️ sources to OP via a link or comment from elsewhere.
