• @Ledivin
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    1410 days ago

    How can it be a scam if it’s free to play?

    • @[email protected]
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      3310 days ago

      devastating to find out that you weren’t having fun all those times that you thought that you were having fun

    • @[email protected]
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      710 days ago

      People just want to feel cheated but telemetry has been around since google no one should be surprised.

      • @friend_of_satan
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        610 days ago

        telemetry has been around since google

        Actually…

        The beginning of industrial telemetry lies in the steam age … Examples are James Watt’s (1736-1819) additions to his steam engines for monitoring from a (near) distance such as the mercury pressure gauge and the fly-ball governor.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

        • @[email protected]
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          210 days ago

          Internet based telemetry couldn’t have existed until at least the 1960-80. This telemetry wasn’t really as sophisticated as electronic based telemetry. The difference is one isn’t connected to your entire life.

          • @friend_of_satan
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            110 days ago

            Sure, but Google came out in 1998. I remember it taking over webcrawler and lycos. Telemetry definitely existed before then. But I get your point that telemetry really became a bad word much more recently.