As the title states.
There is nothing GOG gets from association with Facebook; that isn't selling it's users private information to the super trawler.
That is something that is not in good faith of the DRM free movement.
Big business does not need our information and GOG has become ORIGIN/STEAM/UPLAY enough as it is.
Why enable logging in through third party applications and services? Does the GOG one have an intrinsic problem? If not then Facebook should shove off.

Social media being used more for advertising seems the far larger reason why it's used... Beyond that i don't think any businesses really care.

I presume the idea also is that if a new user wander to the site, they don't have to go through the trouble of creating "yet another account" just for GOG/Galaxy, but just log in with their existing Facebook profile?

Anyway, as long as it is not mandatory, I am fine if it exists. Not sure if it causes any issues for us non-FB users though, like FB gathering identifying information on us anyway.

The main reason I wouldn't use FB here is not that much for fear of tracking, but I just don't want to be easily identified. Like the other day I reported about my diarrhea here, how many people do that with their own name and face in FB? I'm sure many, but that is not the point.

Yeah, I was wondering about this myself. Especially about the peculiar timing. I mean, why implement this at the exact moment the everyone-with-half-a-brain-could-figure-this-out-but-no-one-dared-talk-about-it data mining bomb blows up in Zuck's face, advertisers jump off in droves and facebook seems finally, AT LONG LAST to be destined to go the way of the dodo within a year or so. NOW they implement a "log in through facebook" button.

True class with that timing, gog, as always! *thumbs up*



To say nothing about the very obvious idiocy of including this button in the Chinese interface as well. In case no one told gog: facebook is blocked here, that button is pretty much useless. You may want to change that for a "log in though wechat" button, since that's what everyone uses here.

Is there anyone here who doesn't yet understand that when you join the 'free' Facebook service, your voluntarily-provided data is the product they're selling?

gOg's affiliation isn't the problem. Being a Facebook user is the problem. With a dead-simple solution.

Nobody should have anything to do with Facebook

this XD

and not because of all the shit that has recently gone down.

Considering the reach GOG has via Facebook, I doubt they'll give that up anytime soon. Why not just wear a tinfoil hat and forget your worries?

Facebook did nothing wrong!

I never said that but others might have a different opinion on what wrong is.

Dunno about that; one could argue that doing little-to-nothing about clamping down on data mining (or whatever they call this) is doing something wrong. They could certainly be more upfront about how they earn revenue with your data, and also make it painfully easy for the user to figure out how to limit that data sharing.

Even then, I would not trust that the data still isn't being shared behind-the-scenes, regardless of which checkboxes one ticks. If it's in their ecosystem, hiding your data from public view doesn't remove it from the enormous money-making database.

Don't like it don't use it, IMO.

That goes without saying, but it's not like not using it means you can live as if it didn't exist. Things still have an impact on you if you don't use them (I'm talking about Facebook in general, not the log in on GOG).

You're right. But, honestly, if you avoid facebook and ALL its social media subsidiaries - like WhatsApp - you cannot but feel like a social outcast. I'm getting along with Discord, but of course, that nullifies web contact with non-gamer family, friends and co-workers. :|

These horrifying scandals - and, yeah, this is absurd, super-orwellian shit - won't stop people from using facebook. The fact that GOG is pushing that connection now, when every single day we keep hearing more crap they've done with the readily available private data, is proof how this is eventually going down.

All will be forgotten and the Zuckerberg guy will run for president 2020.

By all means, please stay away from the facebook shit y'all.

Granted I need to read more about it probably, but reading a few articles it seems to me what Facebook is doing is incredibly obvious and totally opted into. Also the same data mining was used for years before this and praised, because Obama was winning using it. There's a cover story of Wired from 2012 going around praising it clearly. Only now that a crazy Republican won is it seen as some evil plot (I say this as a moderate liberal who just hates hypocrisy).

In any event as me and some dude were discussing on here yesterday the world is changing in these areas and since most people rightly or wrongly don't care there's nothing we can do to stop it.