Do you have similar reaction when games do analytics (99% of them do)? Or when websites ping google analytics?
"do they also have my IMEI,contacts,..." - no we don't. We don't have your actual hardware stats either; all we have is "this quarter, this many Android 4.1s" and "that quarter, that many Tegra 3s".
The games can turn off hardware stats reporting if they wish to.
As a Unity developer, I had no idea my games were phoning home to Unity HQ. This definitely seems like something that should be opt-in.
Also, maybe I'm being dense, but I can't find any information on how to turn it off or find it in the editor - could you share exactly what the option is called?
And people tell me I'm being paranoid for keeping my firewall on "block outbound", running as non-admin (windows), running the browser with noscript, adblock and no external cookies...
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Do you have similar reaction when games do analytics (99% of them do)? Or when websites ping google analytics?
"do they also have my IMEI,contacts,..." - no we don't. We don't have your actual hardware stats either; all we have is "this quarter, this many Android 4.1s" and "that quarter, that many Tegra 3s".
The games can turn off hardware stats reporting if they wish to.
As a Unity developer, I had no idea my games were phoning home to Unity HQ. This definitely seems like something that should be opt-in.
Also, maybe I'm being dense, but I can't find any information on how to turn it off or find it in the editor - could you share exactly what the option is called?
And people tell me I'm being paranoid for keeping my firewall on "block outbound", running as non-admin (windows), running the browser with noscript, adblock and no external cookies...
that's not paranoid; running the browser in a vm and doing a snapshot restore daily is.