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Comment Re:Hacking (Score 1) 244

I trust they won't send any of my "personal" information (name, telephone number, personal e-mails)...

You've just hit on exactly what I don't get about this blurb's claims of these games "collecting personal information":

When was the last time you entered your (real) name, a phone number, an email address, or any other piece of personal information into a game during play? In my case, that would be approximately... never, IIRC.

Any information I've ever entered has been during registration, not gameplay, and that's already getting sent to the publisher whether they use in-game ads or not. Unless they're including local exploits to collect information from other applications without the user's knowledge/consent, then I don't see any evidence of an actual privacy threat tied to the ads.

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