Flammy

That exact logic/approach is why we're seeing larger are larger fines, EU basically saying 'shape up, you can't ignore us.'

> Consumers do not want to pay money for a product and then also have their data harvested to be used to make even more money off of them.

Agreed. And both the game devs and Red Shell as far as I can see aren't selling this data. The devs are spending money to use Red Shell to try to have better / more cost effective advertising campaigns.

All of these factors are available to web browsers (which is why they were chosen, so they can be matched up to web clicks). These are tracked in most web analytics suites today by default.

Based on my research I don't believe that these (even all of them together) are PII.

The problem Red Shell is trying to solve is the "download divide" -- You can track clicks/users on the web before they download, and you can track them after they launch your product, but you can't easily connect the two.

As for why devs want this, if you know ad campaign 1 cost $1 and had 2000 clicks, and ad campaign 2 cost #1 had 1000 clicks, that is helpul but what you really want to know is "what is the lifetime value (LTV) vs cost of acquisition of users from campaign 1 vs 2" because if LTV is significantly different then despite higher cost it may clearly be worth it. But if you can't connect a user from before the download to after you can't do this sort of calculation.

Devs really don't care who the users are, we just want to know how effective a campaign is compared to one another.

Source: Was planning on integrating Red Shell ourselves before this (false) outrage made us cancel our plans.

You might look into the Win 10 linux support, Ubuntu is one o the supported distros. Not sure if it would have full access to resources, have just used it a bit at work and setup was super simple.

The first thing I thought of when reading this article was "I wonder how many Herbalife 'jobs' in disguise will end up on here..."

For example you could have dozens of late stage games that combined have less players than a single, just started, 100 person game.

These numbers are on SpaceX's website.

That said, several articles have mentioned Amazon intentionally is NOT using facial recognition as part of the tech.

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere, and I thought it was kinda neat.

That said, I suspect Microsoft views less as 'return on investment' and more as value of having Minecraft on Xbox / Windows Store as an immediately recognizable title, just like how they acquired Halo to do the same back in the day.

I actually disagree, from what has happened when trying ads ads (basically micropayments in terms of $ amount per view), we get click bait and sensationalist headlines for any news source which focuses on income-per-article-metrics.

Sadly the search is not case sensitive, so a lot of the recent hits are hurricane paths curling...

Don't know if that change is live, however.

If they had some sort of intrusion detection system, I gotta think they would have picked up on this in days, not more than 2 months later.

I feel like this is one of those situations where a dev is saying something like "where is all of the CPU on this database going?" or "Why is the network connection so slow?" and digs into it and finds some strange behavior...

This data wasn't in the article. It is probably the more likely outcome, but we just don't know (yet).

There might be hurdles around the speed of delivery (measured in days or weeks) and I've seen some people cashing out splitting into multiple payments for various reasons, but overall just a little harder and slower than regular transactions. And probably some extra fees, but if you are a millionaire from crypto that is a drop in the bucket.

If this truely was an intern who did this, "you refuse to support" and "you depend on the work it does" are kind of stretches.

Obviously stripping the crediting and copyright details is an incredibly poor decision, but not like this intern has any part of Google's decision to support Ruby Together or not.

Do you have any sources that go into more detail?

When I've worked on PII in analytics, even TLDs were treated carefully. (obviously not the same from a legal perspective...)