If you hit “next”, the consent window opens again and if you refuse any of them, you get put back at this screen so you’re stuck in a loop.
This shitty practice is even endorsed by Google, as they are promoting this game to try out and earn points.
Edit: game is called Jewel Gold Empire: Match 3 and it’s from some Korean company it seems: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.penta.empire.google
Obviously I uninstalled it immediately after
If you’re in the EU, this is illegal. Consent has to be given freely for it to have legal weight. That means, it cannot be tied to the performance of the service, unless providing the data is strictly necessary for providing the service.
I guess, they get away with it, because no one cares enough to sue a shitty game.
I am, but what can I do? Try and reporting it via the obtuse methods of Google to have them investigate themselves seems pointless
I mean, if you do want to do something about it, reporting it to your regional data protection officer would be the first step. Then they’ll contact whomever is responsible for this game and tell them to change it or get sued.
Looks like a shitty, generic game
Name and shame
“We value your privacy”
That’s what makes it worth invading.
I might have to copy this one liner and spam it everywhere. Omg.
This goes against the GDPR.
There is no GDPR outside of EU.
Which speak to the bigger problem of why don’t we have this globally? Why hasn’t the US had the legislative balls to implement and enforce an equivalent law? For a culture that is so paranoid about personal information, it’s just such a massive mental gap.
Because the US is effectively an oligarchy run by billionaires. Why would they do something that would provide them with less money and power?
They are paranoid about foreign actors having personal data, not domestic ones. That said, the whole TikTok thing is as much about stifling international competition as it is about data privacy and who is getting/using said data. Meta, Alphabet, and their ilk all harvest much more data than TikTok, and sell it to data brokers. There is absolutely nothing stopping the Chinese government from just buying the data they would obtain from the mandatory data sharing forced upon Chinese companies.
TikTok took market share from Meta and Alphabet, Suckerberg and whoever is the head letter at Alphabet called up the Congressmen they bought and started making a fuss, so their boys on the hill found excuses to ban it.
I am not sayinf some of the excuses do not have kernels of merit, but they are largely overshadowed by the anticompetitive effect that it has.
Just to expand and answer your larger question, the US government does not respect the privacy of the citizens. The anti-data-brokerage legislation we did manage to get through only occurred AFTER the harvested data was used against those in office, and even then it was made an opt-out legislation which requires us to contact each brokerage firm individually and request, in writing, that our data be purged and we not be tracked. That exempts all new firms from the restrictions and relies on the individual to A. Know how to find the firms and B. Be able to manage contacting each one of them. What this has done is invented an entirely new service industry for removing OUR information from these brokerage firms. So we have to pay for privacy, yet again, making it something really reserved for the rich.
If you look at the other laws, things like license law and such, you will find that the US government has quite truly conspired to make sure that corporations have carte blanch to do whatever they want with those who use their services.
So they don’t sell in EU? Or disable the dialogue only there?
That’s what it looks like inside EU:
Only one option to agree to the user agreement and data usage. When you decline, the app just closes instantly
Well this is a step up from when they were doing it anyway and didn’t have to tell you.
I don’t think I’ve had a mobile game on my phone in 10 years, are there any actual decent ones? They all look so generic.
Indie PC games that charge money for a mobile port. I have stardew valley, binding of Isaac, balatro, slay the spire, monster train, on my phone. (Several are included with Apple Arcade, though I would definitely not subscribe to Arcade if it weren’t included with my other stuff. Also I personally wouldn’t play stardew or Isaac without a controller.)
If it’s “free” it’s almost always obscenely abusive. (There are a handful of exceptions, including some open source ones, but I couldn’t name any off the top of my head.)
Binding of Isaac on mobile sounds incredibly frustrating
Like I said I use a controller. I don’t think I’d do super well with touch controls.
There are some pretty cheap controllers you could fit on a keychain that might be a good option for someone who wants “real” mobile games for slightly longer stretches without carrying a big extra device around though.
I heard balatro is super fun maybe i’ll give that a go!
I’m not as hooked on it as some. It feels kind of same-y over time, and the “it’s poker” thing doesn’t scratch any of the same itch as regular poker.
But it’s sure as hell better than almost any “free” mobile game because it doesn’t have a team of people special tailoring algorithms to decide when to cheat to make you win and when to cheat to screw you over in order to pull as much money as possible.
Well there is stardew valley.
There are some decent ones like chrono trigger, halo, and twisted metal. Or did you mean without an emulator?
Ya just generic phone games, I haven’t touched them since jetpack joyride. Actually the last game I played on my phone was pokemon emerald on my ipod touch emulator lol, I’m pretty behind the times.
I like playing Pocket City 2, Slay the Spire, and Balatro on mobile.
Sure there are, they are just hard to find on the official stores. I use mini review (website or phone application). https://minireview.io/
thanks!
The other option should just be uninstall.
What was on the “Next” screen? Seems like you could decline on the next screen that would have the options and such
As stated in my post, hitting next would bring back the consent window and if you rejected any of the hundreds of vendors, it would bring you back to this screen again.
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That’s not consent, that’s quid pro quo! They value the money they get by exposing your privacy to vendors.
Show us the next screen.
