• cybernihongo@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    I saw the mastodon post about ad traction. Strange that they would redirect to a middle service like that, considering GOG itself supports affiliate links. I think you can see these sorts of links on PCGW too. Still, it’s good that they addressed it, but the ad tracker thing remains iffy.

    I am under the impression that even if GOG doesn’t support them to some official capacity, that they are still cool with them, and for all intents and purposes we basically can treat them like that no problem. And needless to say, it’s a great thing that it is open source - if it were Galaxy or Steam or Epic or whatever we’d find out about this stuff way too late, get even slower turnaround and the damage would be already done. Not to mention we can fork the project if someone’s dedicated enough. Like I’d definitely appreciate a simpler option making use of Comet for one.

    • Nils@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      I think Steam, GOG and Epic have API/SDK that anyone can use. It is not like they check what every single person is doing. Steam has a problem with gambling and grey market trading that uses their services, it is not like they are actively going after them.

      Btw, Comet main dev is one of the devs behind Heroic. It seems imLinguin is also based in Poland and very active with the GOG community. GOG definitely knows about them. Maybe something changes since they are willing to invest on Linux now.