Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

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[–] conciselyverbose 43 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you're more likely to be interested in. This is also called "tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

Nope. Screw off.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

"tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best case: he has no idea what he's talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.

[–] conciselyverbose 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if he said "tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice" or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Anonymous, but we can use it to identify everything about you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Google stopped pretending the profiles are anonymous a while ago.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 month ago

Anonymously personalized!

I'll put them in my flying submarine, next to the soup sandwich.