I don’t think getting freebies from them counts as supporting them
I do. Some examples off the top of my head:
- giving them access to your stored data, both through account creation and by letting their code execute on your computer
- giving them access to your system fingerprints, through the same
- giving them access to your behavioral data, through the same
- giving them legal influence over you, by agreeing to their terms
- giving their legal arguments greater weight by increasing their market share
- giving them greater sway with publishers by bolstering their user count
There are probably other ways in which it supports them. Those are just the first ones to come to mind.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
You have to create an account to get them.
If you don’t think data harvesting to sell the data isn’t part of that equation, you’re just a little bit naive.
otp@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Of course it’s part of the equation.
It’s part of the equation on Steam and GOG, too.
So unless you bought a physical copy of this game and kept it off the internet (not sure if anyone is collecting any data through FO3 itself), or got it gifted to you through GOG and you don’t have an account there, you’re in the same boat. Except you paid for the game with money in addition to data.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah, but the argument was “does taking a free game help them or not” not shifting goalposts to whether Valve does it, too.