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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] circuitfarmer 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you -- depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That's my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.

[–] v0rld 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Well if they can turn [email protected] into money they honestly deserve the 50 cent they're getting for it.

[–] circuitfarmer 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They can. That's literally what data brokers do.

[–] v0rld 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

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

Fingerprinting though

[–] circuitfarmer 1 points 9 months ago

But it wasn't worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn't really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.