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[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Does anyone know how Valve rate on privacy? Do they aggressively data mine and sell it in the surveillance economy?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (45 children)

That tends to happen when you have a monopoly on an industry where you get 30% of the revenue from other people's hard work.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Mono=one poly=seller... and last I checked Steam is not the only seller of video games. They aren't even the only seller of digital video games. They aren't even the only seller of digital video games for SteamOS.

They are the largest because they do what's right by their customers and employees. As a 'for instance', I bought Portal 2 for the PS3 many years ago. I no longer have my PS3 but I can still play Portal 2 (as well as Portal which was just thrown in for me) on any PC.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Technically Steam is not a monopoly, but the way people commonly use the term these days is as simple as "majority market share".

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