This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve’s own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.
Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.
Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I don’t want another attack vector for some hacker on my computer. That phone home code will be the second coming of the Sony rootkit.