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Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

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Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#41

Post by Angostura »

swebs wrote: post #13

Wow, when trying to access this from the EU, I'm blocked by this huge pop-up telling me to either accept their tracking or fuck off. The cookie policy makes no mention on how to access the site without clicking "I accept", it just directs you to optout.aboutads.info. https://i.imgur.com/dK73MUi.png Is this really GDPR compliant?

Very poor. On Mac Safari, I switched to Reader mode, which circumvented it.

The imgur one that gets displayed is very good by comparison, except arguably some of those options shouldn't be pre-ticked.

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#42

Post by thvasilo »

swebs wrote: post #13

Wow, when trying to access this from the EU, I'm blocked by this huge pop-up telling me to either accept their tracking or fuck off. The cookie policy makes no mention on how to access the site without clicking "I accept", it just directs you to optout.aboutads.info. https://i.imgur.com/dK73MUi.png Is this really GDPR compliant?

I don't think this is GDPR compliant, the choice is either track or go to another website.

For the time being I added these to uBlock:

www.theverge.com##.privacy-consent-notice

www.theverge.com###privacy-consent-ui

www.theverge.com###privacyConsent

Not sure if I'm now doing something illegal or they are, since I never consented but they're probably tracking my visits now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#43

Post by JetSetWilly »

icecreammatt wrote: post #40
JetSetWilly wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't buy games using the Steam Store app.

You can buy games with the existing Steam app. I do it all the time during the sales.

My bad, I remember trying to before and being unable to, I just assumed it would be the same situation as the kindle app.

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#44

Post by [deleted] »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #17
swebs wrote: post #13

Wow, when trying to access this from the EU, I'm blocked by this huge pop-up telling me to either accept their tracking or fuck off. The cookie policy makes no mention on how to access the site without clicking "I accept", it just directs you to optout.aboutads.info. https://i.imgur.com/dK73MUi.png Is this really GDPR compliant?

It’s one if the worst I have seen. There is no way not to accept this. I can’t see how this is permitted.

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Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#45

Post by itake »

throwahey wrote: post #34
swebs wrote: post #13

Wow, when trying to access this from the EU, I'm blocked by this huge pop-up telling me to either accept their tracking or fuck off. The cookie policy makes no mention on how to access the site without clicking "I accept", it just directs you to optout.aboutads.info. https://i.imgur.com/dK73MUi.png Is this really GDPR compliant?

Start by disabling javascript, then only whitelisting websites when necessary. Also consider whether certain content is even worth vieweing when confronted with an "enable JS" banner. Your web experience is now 1000% better.

I use uMatrix to block loading content from unwanted domains, but I am considering disabling it. ~30% of websites I visit, I spend 30s adjusting the whitelist to get the page to load properly.

I would think this would make my browsing experience even more cumbersome. Is there no alternative?

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#46

Post by hartator »

thvasilo wrote: post #42
swebs wrote: post #13

Wow, when trying to access this from the EU, I'm blocked by this huge pop-up telling me to either accept their tracking or fuck off. The cookie policy makes no mention on how to access the site without clicking "I accept", it just directs you to optout.aboutads.info. https://i.imgur.com/dK73MUi.png Is this really GDPR compliant?

I don't think this is GDPR compliant, the choice is either track or go to another website. For the time being I added these to uBlock: www.theverge.com##.privacy-consent-notice www.theverge.com###privacy-consent-ui www.theverge.com###privacyConsent Not sure if I'm now doing something illegal or they are, since I never consented but they're probably tracking my visits now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That’s really meta, I guess adding thse rules to uBlock means you consent.

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

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Post by richmarr »

mihaifm wrote: post #31
tracker1 wrote: post #22

Apple, pissing off game developers since 1976.

Also nobody seems to care about the app developers who probably spent months developing this app, to see it go to waste over a bussiness decision.

While I'm a bit sympathetic with the devs here, they got paid, and this was always going to be a risky proposition. They must have known that.

Adding the 3rd largest app store in the US to iOS was always going to be a seizmic shift on the App Store and could cannibalise large parts of the iOS game category.

Re: Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

#50

Post by pjc50 »

I've been waiting for a company of this to just go full litigation as a result of something like this.

The lack of a premium "please give us a representative we can negotiate this with and get an actual explanation from" tier is a serious problem.

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