Please Learn why NOT to let BLIZZARD sell your data

[Mrtinkles]

If it isn't the typical whataboutism that comes around whenever someone points to a particular problem. You're assuming a LOT of things there, pal.

I, for one, don't use gmail, google, discord, facebook, reddit, android, chrome or windows. I sometimes use youtube because, unfortunately, they have pretty much a monopoly, but I try to use alternatives like Odysee as much as possible. But that's neither here nor there.

If someone shares information about a specific thing you'd be better off avoiding, barking "BUT I'M SURE YOU DO ALL THESE OTHER THINGS WRONG, CHECKMATE LOSER" just comes off as arrogant and short-sighted. I already knew not to trust Blizzard, since it's owned by Activision which is owned by Microsoft (and a laundry list of other scummy things), but I'm grateful that OP is sharing important information about their data harvesting operations.

Regarding your mocking disdain of a private WoW server as "the one truly incorruptible institution left in modern society", I trust them way, way more than any disgusting corpo like Microsoft.

Was meant to be satire.

A piss-poor attempt that comes across as you deriding OP.

Too bad you took it that way. Better than your piss poor attempt to put me in my place though. Byeeeeee

[Xploiiited123]

Unfortunately, following certain global events, Blizzard ceased support for my region for political reasons; for over four years, the company has neither serviced mobile numbers nor accepted payments. It is painful to watch my fellow countrymen continue to pour money into this corporation by spoofing their locations with VPNs, obtaining foreign bank cards, and so on. Blizzard is essentially spitting in the face of its ru-speaking community, yet the community just smiles and asks for more.

Thanks to Turtle WoW, OctoWoW, and other fan communities for preserving the game exactly as the developers originally intended.

[Pirtest]

Unfortunately, following certain global events, Blizzard ceased support for my region for political reasons; for over four years, the company has neither serviced mobile numbers nor accepted payments. It is painful to watch my fellow countrymen continue to pour money into this corporation by spoofing their locations with VPNs, obtaining foreign bank cards, and so on. Blizzard is essentially spitting in the face of its ru-speaking community, yet the community just smiles and asks for more.

Thanks to Turtle WoW, OctoWoW, and other fan communities for preserving the game exactly as the developers originally intended.

That's so disgusting. Yet another example of Blizzard's psychopathic nature.

[Zvyrhol]

But it's okay when private servers do it. Got it, champ. o7

Do private servers even collect users' data apart from login, email and password?