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  1. Comment on Deus Ex at twenty: The oral history of a pivotal PC game in ~games

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    Pretty funny considering DXHR had I think 4 of these exact situations.

    To this day, I hate boss battles. You go into a room and then all the doors shut, it just feels so artificial.

    Pretty funny considering DXHR had I think 4 of these exact situations.

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  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    I may actually have been incorrect in this area, from what I could find they may have actually stopped scanning email contents for marketing purposes. Now that's not to say they're not still...

    I may actually have been incorrect in this area, from what I could find they may have actually stopped scanning email contents for marketing purposes. Now that's not to say they're not still getting some value out of the metadata sender/receiver, subject lines, and that "value-added" features like receipt and trip-tracking, and from their others ways of tracking users online, especially through Chrome and Android devices; but in the very specific email content scanning that may no longer be occurring:

    https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/google-has-all-the-data-it-needs-will-stop-scanning-gmail-inboxes/
    https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align/

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  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    I appreciate your more moderate view, there's typically two camps "Google is the devil" or "What is wrong with Google?". The data part is definitely a toss up, where I understand a lot of the...

    I appreciate your more moderate view, there's typically two camps "Google is the devil" or "What is wrong with Google?".

    The data part is definitely a toss up, where I understand a lot of the value and usage that I get from the service is due to the large scale data collection, but at the same time hate the idea of what that data is used for outside of the scope of usage for the service that the data is being collected from.

    Rock and a hard place, degoogling is the cilice of today.

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  4. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    I have/had a GSuite account as well since I was interested in seeing how the GSuite worked, you know setting up an org, SSO, and admin options. I do still have a major footprint in other Google...

    I have/had a GSuite account as well since I was interested in seeing how the GSuite worked, you know setting up an org, SSO, and admin options. I do still have a major footprint in other Google services but I'm moving away slowly.

    The hardest thing to replace is Maps, I can not find anything that is opensource or more privacy conscious that comes ANYWHERE near as good as Google Maps.

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  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    This is true, and it runs the same risk of unauthorized login as any other webmail, but both of those are of equivalent risk, and possibly more so are Proton since they are much smaller.

    This is true, and it runs the same risk of unauthorized login as any other webmail, but both of those are of equivalent risk, and possibly more so are Proton since they are much smaller.

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  6. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    My decision to go with an encrypted email provider, ProtonMail, was more based on the protections that Proton themselves is not slurping up my email. Leaving Gmail was fueled by the knowledge of...

    My decision to go with an encrypted email provider, ProtonMail, was more based on the protections that Proton themselves is not slurping up my email. Leaving Gmail was fueled by the knowledge of what Google does with your mail.

    I agree with your opinion here, and just wanted to give my grey-area reasoning for using an encrypted email provider, even if that doesn't mean I'm 100% covered by encryption technologies in regards to my messages and contents on the distant-end.

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