• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It would mean every Unity game was not-so-secretly shipped with code that phones home to the Unity company upon install.

    Either they’ve been egregiously spying on gamers for years (and by extension, game developers using Unity have just been fine with that), or they’re lying through their teeth.

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      Unity includes telemetry for some time
      I believe you can’t actually disable the telemetry (or Unity intro logo) in the “free” version

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        So then this falls under “devs didn’t care” because it was useful information for them and they didn’t see how it could be used negatively.