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It sounds more like legal: Suit: "We're collecting this data? Why?" Cubicle-dweller: "Dunno, seemed useful." Suit: "Well, we better put something in the ToS
by bonzoesc 15y ago
It sounds more like legal:
Suit: "We're collecting this data? Why?"
Cubicle-dweller: "Dunno, seemed useful."
Suit: "Well, we better put something in the ToS about it so our customers know that we're storing it."
- click170 15y agoIf it wasn't for the specific wording in the ToS allowing them to sell your info to marketers, I would be happy giving them that benefit of the doubt.
- bonzoesc 15y agoI couldn't find it in the current Terms of Service, so I expect that they saw the typical /r/gaming histrionics, checked and saw that they hadn't actually sold the info, figured out how much reddit histrionics cost in sales versus the almost-completely-absent demand for information about super-entitled whiny PC gamers, and decided it wouldn't hurt to remove it from the agreement and their business plans.