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submitted 3 months ago by Dymonika@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'm mightily tempted, finally, by this month's Prime subscription's giveaway of the game KeyWe, which requires Epic Games account-linking.

I'm not really sure of what data risk to expect should I finally expose my real Amazon account to Epic Games (which is pretty much a dummy account that I've only been using to collect their giveaways ever since they began). I have refused to link accounts all these months so far. What do you think?

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[-] Cornflake_Dog@lemmy.wtf 15 points 3 months ago

You're already using Amazon and Epic games, I feel like there's very little they can share with each other that they don't already know.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

What do you think?

There's any downside to just pirate the game instead of getting it for "free" and risking your data to a big corp?

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Malware risk and just wanting to abide by the law?

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

And not just law either. When a team makes a game I want them to get paid, that is how they are making a living and it supports making more games.

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

I sort of bundled that under the law of morals that I'm realizing I really meant, yeah.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Abiding the law is a pretty vague statement in this case because you have a right not to give all your data away to big corporations that break the law regularly themselves. Malware risk is unfortunately real though.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

They don't abide by the law either, just look at the fines they are paying, just in privacy cases. Protonmail used to make digestable articles about it, like this new year

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

That doesn't justify me breaking it, though. It's a separate matter.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

In my book there's no such thing as rules for only me. If they have obsoleted the law and they are getting away with it, I don't need to show any kind of respect to them.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I think you're too paranoid

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it boils down to whatever data Amazon shares with Epic by linking the accounts. I'm not sure how you would find out what data is shared. But I would assume that Epic is paying Amazon something for the data. Somebody is paying and you are the merchandise.

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