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  • digdilem@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlHas Techlore sold out?
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    3 days ago

    I think you have to be exceptionally strong to resist this sort of thing. You can justify sponsorship in a hundred ways - not least to yourself. But in every case, it changes everything. That, of course, is why companies spend money influencing the influencers.

    Buyer beware, as always.



  • A non technical answer: Don’t interact with other players and don’t give out any personal information.

    Use a unique and non-memorable username in steam and in game. Don’t use any of the social functions in steam.

    It’s often overlooked that the biggest risk to personal information is the person themselves.

    (Obviously you need to give some information to Steam for purchasing, and others have shown other methods to limit what information is sold about you as much as you an. It also depends where you reside - the EU has better protections than most)













  • “We’re shocked” - nobody.

    But companies are crawling everything like mad - I’ve noticed a 400% upturn this year alone in bot traffic on a low traffic web forum and a few sites I host, so much so that I’m having to do some fairly heavy filtering upstream to keep them out. (They don’t resepect robots.txt, obviously)

    When bot traffic outnumbers legitimate traffic at least 10x, it makes you wonder why you’re paying to host stuff.