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Imagine the data this would yield: millions and millions of desktop applications with chat logs, hardware specs, usage patterns, social graphs, anti cheat that monitors everything, even more spending habits, the developer ecosystem and any monitoring that goes with that…

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don't they already get most of that with Chrome already?

Gamers complain a lot less about telemetry. Intrusive DRM and anticheat is a way of life for them.

Not really. Doom Eternal was review bombed when they added Denuvo after it launched, to the point that it was removed pretty quickly. Valorant's kernel level anti-cheat was also complained about quite a bit. Maybe console gamers don't complain about it much since they don't have an option, but PC gamers get pretty up in arms about it, or anything for the most part.

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