Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software

Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by IGI-111 on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:51AM (#17575446)

Pretty sure spying on people who just want to play a video game without telling them or letting them opt out ahead of time is not only a bit immoral but also very much illegal, at least in Europe.

I doubt the form they have on their website where you have to know your id to opt out of the spying would hold up in court.

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by pndy on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:58PM (#17578862)

And that's probably why they gladly removed that piece of software - they would risk being fined in long term in Europe, I believe.

Opt-out as someone already noted, is available on red shell company site but I would try to block it in hosts instead of going on site where you can be again tracked. In a nearly ideal world, Firaxis would ask their customers if they agree for this e-life "improvement" of more accurate ads and whatnot else. In a perfect one, they wouldn't bother including Red Shell at all.

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by Jommi on Saturday July 21, 2018 @07:19AM (#17581624)

Red shell is gdpr compliant

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by Fnoord on Sunday July 22, 2018 @12:17PM (#17587458)

How so? The opt-out is sketchy at best. Also, if I fire up Civ VI, I'm not at all aware of this practice. Neither of these suggest compliance; they suggest non-compliance.

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by Jommi on Saturday July 21, 2018 @07:13AM (#17581605)

If you read their site you would see that the information is not PI. It's just to match the two events.

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