Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and play history

Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by Wowfunhappy on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:25AM (#19396837)

The problem is that third-party-Dark-Souls-modding-tool.exe needs access to Dark-Souls.exe’s sandbox.

Note, I use Dark Souls as an example here (as opposed to, say, Skyrim) because Dark Souls mods were very much not developer-sanctioned at the outset. If From Software had needed to explicitly allow mods, you can bet they never would have happened.

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Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by ztjio on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:53AM (#19396928)

So then you give it access. Nobody is saying that you, the user, should not have control over these sandboxes.

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Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by lifthrasiir on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:24AM (#19397050)

I think most current examples of sandboxing also implies app signing and whatever restricts users' own control, hence the confusion. Users are sometimes allowed to lift the restriction but it's mostly an all-or-nothing bet.

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