Wow, what a worthy post. I have nothing against ID, and I think this whole thing is silly and that they meant no harm and made a mistake as people do, I'm just pointing out facts, you know, THINKING.. which you can't seem to do much of.
I've read a lot of the posts on here about people saying, "oh it's just video card info and I would willing give that up so I don't really care, but if they were collecting my MAC address, ip, etc I would be a bit more upset". But if you think about it, that video card information does them absolutly no good without a unique identifier to it because otherwise they would be logging the same peoples video cards over and over and over and have no way of checking for previous/dup records, so idealy they have something linking it back to YOUR computer.
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Wow, what a worthy post. I have nothing against ID, and I think this whole thing is silly and that they meant no harm and made a mistake as people do, I'm just pointing out facts, you know, THINKING.. which you can't seem to do much of.
I've read a lot of the posts on here about people saying, "oh it's just video card info and I would willing give that up so I don't really care, but if they were collecting my MAC address, ip, etc I would be a bit more upset". But if you think about it, that video card information does them absolutly no good without a unique identifier to it because otherwise they would be logging the same peoples video cards over and over and over and have no way of checking for previous/dup records, so idealy they have something linking it back to YOUR computer.