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
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If you consider the way you choose to allocate your time and and a portion of your entertainment budget private… then yes.
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.
Curious to learn if it’s limited to data within Steam itself or more. So far the only thing that I saw that could change my behavior is the start screen on Steam (even if I start games, e.g BG3) straight from my KDE menu. Curious to know if that can be disabled.
Answering my own question here, since nobody actually helped :
- Steam Settings
- Interface
- Start Up Location
- change “Store” to “Library”
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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.
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