Stop victimizing yourself. Some people in that thread politely suggested that it might be better for yourself to just move away from those things that make your life oh so miserable - namely GOG and their abhorrent practices. But no, you're too virtuous a warrior, you just have to stand up to the bastards and show them! And the very next day, sinking further into your delusion, you seem to think of yourself as the rebel Mal Reynolds... ROFLMAO!

Get over yourself.

It's been the standard policy of free giveaways for the last months. It's a bit unnecessary and irksome but if you didn't notice it until now it surely cannot be that bad.

And nothing stops you from unchecking that directly after each giveaway click...

We seem to have very different definitions of politeness.

Surprisingly, I don't actually think of myself as whatever character may currently be on my avatar. I don't think most people do. If I'm wrong, I guess ConsulCeasar might have some interesting delusions. Also, I actually first changed my avatar to the Mad Hatter, but it seemed to not be very clearly visable so I had to change it and I kind ended up with Mal by accident, because some random vid on YouTube pushed pushed my train of thought towards Firefly :D But plese, by all means don't let any of that get in the way of your armchair psychoanalysis. You were doing so well :D

What? No way. I'm the only interesting person here!

Thanks for the tip!

There is also the soundtrack, available dirty cheap during the sale.

Wow! It is so easy to throw on gog.com for fun, to bring all life pain here and just dump it on this store, even I writing it with small letters as I don`t appreciate screams :D

But... what did you just write!? Are you an enlightened person or someone? : )

Tripple A-men!

Thanks for Steel Rats! and gog.com is a Batman! ^ :P

You must be ignoring really HARD the fact that it is TOTALLY possible to smuggle out and collect data in that supposedely profoundly short time window between opt-in and opt-out.
And to my knowledge opt-out doesn't actually erase alredy collected data and you have to personally contact some people in order to achieve that.

Only if you count very aggressive shoving of marketing subscriptions down user throats as batman-esuqe (which it could be seen as since batman sure breaks a lot of jaws during his combos, so situation is somewhat comparable I guess).

Also his marketing is also kind of everpresent and in your face.

+1

GOG: I decline your free game and I have opted out of your marketing e-mails. Thanks for the reminder.

Most likely because of the deal with EPIC. They already know how to "attract" people with all those free games that gamers swallow up without a thought. In many cases I've seen the argument that literally means "just shut up and take it, and be happy". Wasn't it the Romans that gave out free food and entertainment to keep people in line?

Someone has to pay for all of this and I'm not sure GOG has the money for it...

Just like DRM - people are more likely to give up their freedom/liberty if they get something "for free". People seem to have already forgotten what Facebook did with the users data (yup, they sold it). Or that the Epic launcher was caught snooping around.

Yes, critical thinking is a thing of the past.

Thanks for Steel Rats and its DLC.

I was already subscribed to that functionality before the first giveaway with this change happened. The only thing you get is very low-frequency easy to ignore emails with codes for reduced prices from GOG. Most of them are hit or miss, mostly miss for me but I think I had a useful one once.
Nothing I can see here mentions any data-sharing and the checkbox explicitly says "from GOG Sp. z o.o." and nothing else. If you have more, actually concrete information here please tell, otherwise just shut up.

Oooooh....
How polite of you....

I just checked some old email (I had some samples long time ago) from GOG from 2020.
And it has Google Analytics pixel tracker. (those are very noticably not present in order related emails)
Also outgoing email embedded links seem to include possibly unique values (ergo user identification).
Is this enough for you?
Or are you going to bend reality and am I "to shut up"?

Well, thanks for another giveaway!

So we can agree on the fact that GOG is not actively pumping any of their data into third parties? A GA pixel tracker is annoying but also very easy to defeat (after all, blocking images in emails should be the default setting for anyone who cares even a little bit about their privacy and/or those who would like to limit the amount of repeat spam they get) and while technically fulfilling data-sharing at the bare minimum it also does not appear to be the gratuitous sharing of my private data some of the other posts made it out to be. I was hoping for some big Epic-reveal like hinted above by someone.

As always, you are free to do what you like, regardless of what I say. My personal opinion has swung back to "don't give a damn" since my delayed dinner has finally happened.

That said, I just did a quick inventory of what data of mine GOG could transfer to other people. There is my order history and my email. There is how often I downloaded what I bought. Unless they are screwing over their payment provider in a potentially expensive way, not my credit card number nor my real name. Galaxy could try to harvest data (though getting caught doing that might be more of an image problem than it is for a known asshat like Epic), but apart from the IP it's sitting alone and isolated in its own Wine bottle. The IP is dynamic though and getting more information from the ISP is legally not too easy and can and did backfire in the past. I don't do friends via Galaxy (not even with my RL friends), so there is preciously little of my social network to harvest. I don't twitch, tweet or facetwat and even if I did I certainly would not connect anything with my GOG account.
If GOG decided to go sell what they have as an equivalency to announcing them going out of business, I should just about manage.

It's good that we cleared up that you revert to not carrying about how you treat strangers when food shows up near you.

No. We do not.
1.What I noted were only examples based on very casual few minutes research (I am quite sure I barely scratched the surface), NOT fundamental deep analysis
2.If you are so interested you should really read Privacy Policy of GOG's. Many things written there openly oppose what you think you know.

The thing is what GOG does really is guerilla tactics just like Epic's.
The "free is not actually free, you are just paying with your private data instead of money" ordeal that majority ignores based on being in denial.

Here is your problem, you assume the company that apparently cannot be bothered to put one line of "IN ORDER TO get the game you have to agree to marketing subscription" IN THEIR FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT to comply with legal requirements of their country of operation is going to even care if they have pushed beyond what's legal at all.

No matter how you look at it it's a pretty solid basis for profiling.
Since GOG shares at least some of data with 3rd parties this can be used to baseline or enrich 3rd party data on you, can be used in bespoke advertising campaigns for years to come, and there is potentially no saying where your data may actually end up being copied to throughout the years.
Maybe specificly you do not care, but you cannot say this is not an issue just because YOU don't care.

Also, I don't know how about you but personally I don't wish to share my email address with just about anybody or any corporate entity as that is STILL a private bit of information that can be used for whole plethora of purposes, and if the 3rd parties GOG may share it with would ever get a leak then there is no telling where and IF misuse of your address would end.
Perhaps you have never been flooded with spam. Perhaps you don't mind filtering out phishing.
But the problem is very much real regardless of your denial or acceptance of it.