What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users?

Also, does Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or a VPN with ad-blocking and anti-tracking prevent the new data collection through Chrome?

  • BanditMcDougal
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    91 year ago

    Which includes the Steam client. It’s a CEF-based application.

    • federalreverse-old
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      91 year ago

      Electron apps are largely irrelevant in this discussion, unless they include a general-purpose browser. The Steam client is exclusively used to display things from some Valve-owned API domain (or is there a general-purpose browser somewhere in there?). All the data generated by Steam is completely separate from the data generated by the normal Chrome browser.

      And the same thing goes for Electron apps like Signal Desktop, Atom, VS Code, Slack, Teams, …