I appreciate everyone involved in this non-commercial endeavour. Thanks for all the unappreciated hard work you all put in.

Cool dude. Well you said your account is anonymous, and it isn’t. Words mean things.

No it isn’t.

When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

Please yes.

They’ve shown us who they are. They do not change.

BioWare has EA’s grubby fat fingers all up inside of it so I ain’t holding my breath. And I say that as someone who has a relative working for BioWare.

I thought you were done participating/contributing to the Lemmy side of things?

Holy fuck buddy, you need to log off and go outside.

Right? So many people don’t understand the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good”.

Can we please unpin this now? It’s the top of all of my feeds still.

Unfortunately, the lowest common denominator is becoming more and more common.

This future is lame.

There IS a way to get this out of games, but it won’t happen. People would actually need to NOT purchase things from companies that display this behaviour, the games included.

Not in the US. North of that. Canada Pension Plan through the government. If you work, you have a pension. It’s not great, but it’s something.

The one from work is because I am part of a union.

You have to have those uncomfortable conversations.

I have a pension through work, and through the government.

Are you going to keep playing the same game with slightly different flavours for the next 100 years? When does this crap stop?

If this is the way humanity is headed, maybe it’s a good thing we’re about to go extinct.

Those expensive shipping release fees are what’s stopping people from importing EVs from China.

There are alternatives that don’t involve giving them your $$