Blizzard's Battle.net in its infancy could look up just about ANY information it wanted off of your computer: file listings, registry settings, and more. That whole incident seemed to pass over very quickly despite its enormousy.
I do not feel "violated" in any way to have my 3D card's driver version, or the game version sent to id.
You wanna bitch about privacy? Have any of you forgotten how much info a web server can collect from you? They've got your ip, your host, the last link you were at, and more. And that information has been declared as exceptable to collect for a web server.
So why do we need to make an exception here and ridicule id for doing essentially the same thing? Especially since id's only collecting minimal information from you.
And as far as Mr. Carmack lets on, id isn't even storing your ip address with your info. So, it looks like it is 100% anonymous info to boot. ie. all id knows is that someone out there (ie. me) is using a Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator. Who cares?
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Blizzard's Battle.net in its infancy could look up just about ANY information it wanted off of your computer: file listings, registry settings, and more. That whole incident seemed to pass over very quickly despite its enormousy.
I do not feel "violated" in any way to have my 3D card's driver version, or the game version sent to id.
You wanna bitch about privacy? Have any of you forgotten how much info a web server can collect from you? They've got your ip, your host, the last link you were at, and more. And that information has been declared as exceptable to collect for a web server.
So why do we need to make an exception here and ridicule id for doing essentially the same thing? Especially since id's only collecting minimal information from you.
And as far as Mr. Carmack lets on, id isn't even storing your ip address with your info. So, it looks like it is 100% anonymous info to boot. ie. all id knows is that someone out there (ie. me) is using a Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator. Who cares?
-- WarZone