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This is real iffy. Do you know when that change was made?
Fortunately the thing about GOG is I can drop those launchers anytime I want, I'm not stuck with anything unlike some others. Since Heroic relies on another open source project (I believe) called Comet it's also not hard for an alternative to pop up.
I don't have the exact commit anymore, but it was at the beginning of 2024. I remember going to suggest them to be more straightforward with their changelog, but someone beat me to it.
Yeah, I remember other project for epic, Legendary, that a bunch of people built on top, but it was discontinued recently.
Edit: nevermind, I found the mastodon comment, and the people reporting the problem with gog on github. From there it was easier to find the commit.
https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher/111824351634717227 (It was actually a reply to their own mastodon post where the "informed" about the change.
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/commit/2f88dc9af051d1b1a5d79fd1baf584f1b7875168#diff-a80892a1c67a5d05d39672dd972dbb6646c6f82b57a1b6a608db0e77e09adf89
Scroll down to webview/index to see the change. The subsequent commits were all to fix issues caused by this.
I saw the mastodon post about ad traction. Strange that they would redirect to a middle service like that, considering GOG itself supports affiliate links. I think you can see these sorts of links on PCGW too. Still, it's good that they addressed it, but the ad tracker thing remains iffy.
I am under the impression that even if GOG doesn't support them to some official capacity, that they are still cool with them, and for all intents and purposes we basically can treat them like that no problem. And needless to say, it's a great thing that it is open source - if it were Galaxy or Steam or Epic or whatever we'd find out about this stuff way too late, get even slower turnaround and the damage would be already done. Not to mention we can fork the project if someone's dedicated enough. Like I'd definitely appreciate a simpler option making use of Comet for one.
I think Steam, GOG and Epic have API/SDK that anyone can use. It is not like they check what every single person is doing. Steam has a problem with gambling and grey market trading that uses their services, it is not like they are actively going after them.
Btw, Comet main dev is one of the devs behind Heroic. It seems imLinguin is also based in Poland and very active with the GOG community. GOG definitely knows about them. Maybe something changes since they are willing to invest on Linux now.