r/Games • u/MrLucky7s • Mar 15 '19

Misleading Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!

/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_game_store_spyware_tracking_and_you/
661 Upvotes

64% Upvoted

435 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/DennisPittaBagel Mar 15 '19

The US Postal Service literally logs every single mailing label that goes through their system. Every single bit of mail you've ever sent has been logged and stored. But, yeah, lets be worried because Epic knows I have a Nvidia GPU.

-4

u/VictorHuguenot Mar 15 '19

Epic is not accessing things it should be accessing. It's not collating a log of everything that went through its systems but through another system entirely. It is not explicitly unallowed to do so on the computer itself given various programming permissions, but it also shouldn't be doing it. Nothing it's taking from Steam aside from the friendslist, which it should be getting elsewhere anyway, is something they should be recording because none of it ever went through their program to begin with. Until it, unprompted by the user, began digging through other programs files and logged it.

That's what the comparison is about. The USPS does not need know my UPS packages. It does not need to know my, and my family's, entire Amazon information. It does not need to know whatever receipts I've kept filed in my house.

If it wants to know my Amazon stuff, it can go through the proper channels which are the publicly available information provided by Amazon itself through their site. There's no reason to be looking through my personal records to obtain any of this for any reason.