This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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
The only thing that's pointless is doing nothing.
Now, I'm not arguing that fighting against this is worth your time. I'm making more a semantic argument that hopelessnes and apathy only allow things to get worse.
Also, fuck this game. Don't play it.
Report them to your national privacy authority.
Assuming you are living in the EU, your country will have that.
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
WHAT. GAME. IS IT.
Or don’t waste everyone’s fkg time Jesus
I originally didn't want to include it to not give them any publicity, but a lot of folks seem to agree with you so I added a link to the OP
Well this is a step up from when they were doing it anyway and didn't have to tell you.
So don't play it?
"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?
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
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.)
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.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles&hl=en-US
No data collected, no extra permissions needed... just the games.
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.
Unciv is a FOSS clone of Civilization 5, great stuff.
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!
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.
The only mobile games I play are Luck Be a Landlord, Ascension, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and lately the new Pokémon TCG.
My favorite of them is Ascension. I love that game so much.
Doot for ascension
I like playing Pocket City 2, Slay the Spire, and Balatro on mobile.
I really enjoy Mini Metro. I’ve been addicted to Dots for years, it’s the very best digital fidget.
I paid for a Need for Speed game some 8 years ago and that was pretty OK for a few hours.
A Dark Room is also really good.
That’s about it, to be honest. If you want to pick up a controller, there’s a decent library of older PC or console games that run on phones now - emulators are also an option.
Maybe Geometry dash(paid version)
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.
They sure do value privacy, it's worth a lot to them to sell it. Maybe they should have written "your privacy is valuable to us". Extra points for throwing "gaming journey" in there, lol.
enhancing your gaming journey
I see that and the only enhancement I'll get is a refund
That's not consent, that's quid pro quo! They value the money they get by exposing your privacy to vendors.
YMMV but if you just leave the game on this screen for like a few minutes and uninstall the game in a few days, Google might still give you the points.