EA's Origin may be glorified Spyware, causes mass upset

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OK, pretty much no way I'm buying Battlefield 3 now. Wasn't likely before, now it's practically impossible.

Ail said:

Since this comes as a huge surprise to you i guess you do not run Windows Vista right ?
Because bitching about some installed app collecting data about you when the OS already does all of that is kind of bitching for no purpose..........

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml

MS doesn't seem to use that data to identify users. I believe Origin's EULA allows them to identify users. Naturally both are bad but obviously EA's is worse. Besides, it is more reasonable for an OS to gather data than it is for a single program.