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Zkuq on 05 December 2024
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curl-6 said:
Zkuq said:

Your actions still have, and ought to have, an effect on your privacy. It's definitely less than it should be, but it's something. Typically you have some idea about what you're signing up for, and having your information shared to a company because you joined a community is not one I'd typically expect myself.

curl-6 said:

Yeah privacy is a concept is dead at this point, it's an illusion at best, companies and governments already know everything about you.
Worrying that people's privacy will be compromised here is like treading water in the middle of the ocean and worrying that it'll rain cos you don't wanna get wet.

You can affect your privacy though. If you choose to use free services and share a lot of information about yourself, that's a decision you make. Personally I choose to limit what I share about myself, and I reckon I'm quite aware of the consequences of my choices and how I could make other kinds of choices regarding my privacy. What's happening here goes against what I'd expect if I signed up to Reddit and joined a particular subreddit, which is exactly why I don't think this is acceptable.

If you're on Reddit, or Facebook, or any of those sites, your info's already out there. I mean yeah, it'd be nice if we could keep our details private online, but that's not the world we live in. I doubt anything Nintendo could expose in this investigation isn't already available for any corporation or government that wants to know.

Well, it's a good thing I'm not on Reddit or Facebook, and do you want to know why? Hint: It's precisely because of what I've been preaching here. WhatsApp? Nope. Avoiding Disqus has been more bothersome, but I'm done that too for exactly the same reason. Just recently, I got VR equipment, and guess what criteria I used to exclude some pretty neat options? Yeah, privacy. Having a Google account is my greatest privacy issue, but it's a fairly controlled situation in many ways. Either way, I probably get more or less what I'm expecting, which would 100 % not be the case with this Reddit case. This is just disproportional, but it's what well in line with what Nintendo often (compared to many other similar companies) does: tight control, often using legal means. These days, I appreciate how Nintendo handles many things, but this is not such a thing.