Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds
colonial@lemmy.world 9 months agoDepending on how they generate a hardware fingerprint, generating random ones every check is a single LD_PRELOAD (or equivalent) away.
delcake@kbin.social 9 months ago
After Unity's clarifications, I'm honestly kind of expecting the old "null-route the web address in the HOSTS file" to be a valid method to prevent their installer from phoning home to increment the counter. It's gonna be incredible if people start trying that just to frick with Unity.
The fact that we can even have this discussion should be proof enough to Unity that it's a complete non-starter of an idea to let user behavior influence the developer bottom-line.
colonial@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn’t stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but… like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren’t listening to the engineers.