EA's Origin is creepy and watches you sleep!

[Twilight_guy]

Well that's creepy. Of course Facebook sells all your data to third parties and certain computers have chips that monitor your computer and send data to foreign countries. Actually there are quiet a few invasive data seekers that people rarely comment on already in most people's lives. Ea should probably try and explain what they are doing here though since that doesn't look good to most users.

 

[Bagged Milk]

yes steam does this too, although I don't think they monitor websites.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

 

[FallenRainbows]

Console gaming for the win?

Alas; I side with most with:

Fuck this noise.

 

[Vonnis]

This is why I won't be buying any games that use it. I just hope ME3 won't require Origin.

 

[dfphetteplace]

Does EA realize there is a program for downloading all their games that doesn't do this type of activity? uTorrent. They are making it much more appealing to just steal their software even by people who don't want to pirate.

 

[Pinkamena]

Kindof scary that they can sell all that information to third parties... Makes me hesitant about getting ME3.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

Will they know what other games I have on my PS3? /gasp.

I can see where PC players would be rising up against this, but as a console user I am not sure I am even effected.

No your not affected by this! But instead you are the target for hackers in wich you realy on Sony for protection contra PC where we do it ourselvs

Fair enough. I do join with my PC playing brethren in solidarity against big corporations creeping on them.

 

[spartandude]

This is why I won't be buying any games that use it. I just hope ME3 won't require Origin.

it will, all future EA games on PC will, unless it fails

 

[Vhite]

Valve, EA and Blizzard. You can't trust anyone these days.

 

[Vonnis]

This is why I won't be buying any games that use it. I just hope ME3 won't require Origin.

it will, all future EA games on PC will, unless it fails

If that's the case, I'll just have to wait for its failure. Shouldn't be too long.

 

[Hugarh1]

yes steam does this too, although I don't think they monitor websites.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I like how µTorrent is 23rd on that list with 29% of people having it installed. Shows how many pc gamers are dirty pirates

 

[Awexsome]

Overreaction much? Companies gather info on what you do to try to market things that they believe may be in your interests. Everyone.

No matter how biased you view of EA is you can't sanely convince yourself that they're going to sell your personal info (email account for spam e-mail does NOT count. Never has.) to someone to get your account stolen...

God people really want to hate EA's program over Steam's for no reason other than to hate...

 

[Ickorus]

I think this is kind of appropriate (Epic paint skills incoming):

I was on the fence about Origin before now, I was gonna wait for a bit and see if EA could be trusted before buying a game throug it (BF3) but this kinda blew that notion out of the water.

Hopefully people see this and it gets changed when the outrage reaches critical mass, then again Facebook seems to be getting away with similar.

 

[Something Amyss]

That's nothing. You should see the clause where they reserve the right to take your firstborn child.

 

[Matt Fetterman]

Here's some sad facts for you. Companies now-a-days are making restricting DRM's. AC2 was a prime example, you needed a constant internet connection to play it. Some weren't aware of that and ended up paying $60 for a brick of worthless shelf-space.

Guess who stepped in to save the day? That's right; the same hackers that Ubi was trying to smother. Instead of turning away hackers, they actually involved a smaller population of people who play PC games without much internet usage.

I don't agree with EA's policy for origin. I really hope TOR doesn't use it as a launcher. If they do, and I want to keep my privacy; I will turn to the hacking community to find a solution :] 1-up guys!

 

[AlmondMan]

Yea, Steam does this too. And where is the option to opt out? Well, I have no idea. A friend just told me that information is in the privacy policy document. I'm however not a native English speaker and despite changing my Steam GUI to my native language, the privacy policy remains in a foreign language. So, I use my English skills to skim the document at hand, but there are no headlines that say "Opting out of information gathering service". But hey, maybe it's too much to expect it to sit in the OPTIONS menu?

So. Stop whining. You can't get anything that doesn't profile you and use this profiling to make money. Google does it. Microsoft does it. Apple does it. Hell, every day something like a million smartphones are activated, and people happily install tracking apps that use GPS to pinpoint your location and broadcast it to Facebook and Google or whatever, so now apple, google, and Facebook know where you're going about in real life, not just your online shopping habbits. Valve does it and now that you took the time to read the Origin terms of use and privacy policy, you know that EA does it too! What a surprise! You're a great champion in the war for privacy. Except, we all know the only reason people care about this is because of some fanboyism that makes it mandatory to hate EA and love Valve.

Stop using the Internet if you're afraid someone is profiling you, because they all are. Even that proxy you're telling yourself is keeping your identity all secret and your porn habits out of Google's claws.

Then there's the fact that these privacy policies, EULAs, Terms of Use and all the rest, are all worded extremely broadly to protect EA from the horrors of the US courtsystem, and other nonsense where they can be sued for doing anything that's not already covered by billions of words of legal text. It's the same with every EULA, TOS, TOU, PP, and so on and so forth. Go ahead, start reading. I'm pretty sure soon you'll not be making threads like this, or you'll be doing nothing else, on every forum ever.

Stupidity, it's probably the only resource we'll never run out of.

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

This is spying, plain and simple, and I'm fairly certain it's against the law. Can't we do anything about this?

Yes, you can. You can avoid installing Origin on your computer. Problem solved.