Both their EULA reserve extensive rights to do considerably more. You are offered the option to 'opt out', but this is implemented in a way that still requires the Unity telemetry code to load and call home every time anyway ("To check if you chose to opt out! How else could we possibly know if we're allowed to look or not?").īoth Unity and KSP's current IP owner have stated to only use telemetry in good faith. Whereas in the older versions it was easy enough to simply delete the telemetry DLLs to stop it from running, in later versions this would completely prevent the game from even starting. In fact, in KSP versions after 1.4 its monitoring capabilities were considerably extended, and stopping it from working by manual actions was made much more difficult. Unity telemetry was not removed, however. So if that one specifically triggered your question, you can be happy about that. The Redshell component was indeed removed. It's a game, but some of the code it runs does call home and send data about your usage and your computer, with the option to do more. I would say that the statement 'KSP is spyware' is wrong on a pragmatic level. I hate the thought that the amazing game KSP is spyware but is it real true?Īs you can see, the term 'spyware' is a bit loaded and there are varying opinions on this subject. Silly tinfoil hat types and their conspiracy theories. You would still shrug and go ahead with it? I mean, they did promise not to do anything nefarious, and right now, it doesn't seem to be sending anything objectionable. Oh and btw, we can change this EULA however we want in the future. The EULA you had to sign to even get the glasses back says they have the freedom to monitor everything, share it with anyone they like, into infinity, and you basically can't do anything about it. You're told when asking that they will really only monitor a few things, for anonymous purposes that will improve your experience in using the glasses (how?). You find out when you get them back that it now includes telemetry electronics that monitor/register everything you look at, what you do, and all your bodily parameters while you're wearing them. You get a call to bring in your glasses for a free upgrade/adjustment. Redshell could do a lot more than what they 'sold' it for, plus the forced EULA reserved the rights to extend things well beyond that. Whether or not the built-in functionality was being used is irrelevant, it was about the potential, and the way it was added silently and only even acknowledged after people raised a stink about it. RedShell was sending back standard telemetry.
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