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Risks associated with linking Amazon Prime and Epic Games accounts (I know, I know...) (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Dymonika@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm mightily tempted, finally, by this month's Prime subscription's giveaway of the game KeyWe, which requires Epic Games account-linking.

I'm not really sure of what data risk to expect should I finally expose my real Amazon account to Epic Games (which is pretty much a dummy account that I've only been using to collect their giveaways ever since they began). I have refused to link accounts all these months so far. What do you think?

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[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Malware risk and just wanting to abide by the law?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Abiding the law is a pretty vague statement in this case because you have a right not to give all your data away to big corporations that break the law regularly themselves. Malware risk is unfortunately real though.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And not just law either. When a team makes a game I want them to get paid, that is how they are making a living and it supports making more games.

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

I sort of bundled that under the law of morals that I'm realizing I really meant, yeah.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They don't abide by the law either, just look at the fines they are paying, just in privacy cases. Protonmail used to make digestable articles about it, like this new year

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't justify me breaking it, though. It's a separate matter.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

In my book there's no such thing as rules for only me. If they have obsoleted the law and they are getting away with it, I don't need to show any kind of respect to them.