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[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The big deal is that you are now forced to create an account with yet another service and give them analytics about your behavior, for literally no benefit to you.

Even though this is widely accepted, this is just not okay in any case. Not when Ubisoft did it, not now.