This dumb argument gets used unironically all the time.
A government can retroactively punish you for crimes you have committed that weren't illegal yet at the time it happened. Then suddenly you care about privacy.
that's not what's being asked for in OP though
and posting your phone number on this board is far worse than giving it to blizzard, if that's anything to consider.
That's why I didn't ask for your phone number. I only asked for your messages which is pretty harmless in comparison.
Sure you have nothing to hide, right?
>I only asked for your messages which is pretty harmless in comparison.
you would be wrong >Sure you have nothing to hide, right?
no i have lots of things to hide that's why I'm not sharing my messages
>no i have lots of things to hide that's why I'm not sharing my messages
What is it? CP? Drugs? Human trafficking? Are you a member of a terrorist cell?
2 years ago
Anonymous
i am the man who posts vidya games
2 years ago
Anonymous
I have contacted FBI and they're going to raid your house any time now. Just so you know you sick frick
2 years ago
Anonymous
tell them to watch out for the Amazon boxes they could trip
can you leave your door wide open the next time you leave your house? you've got nothing to hide after all.
Post your face here right now. You have nothing to hide right?
Then why don't you post a picture of your ID?
I trust the government and massive corporations with my personal information, not individuals.
Individuals are evil and malicious. Large entities like companies are the good guys.
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I trust the government and massive corporations with my personal information, not individuals.
Individuals are evil and malicious. Large entities like companies are the good guys.
This unironically.
The most these corpos sucking off globohomosexual did to me are their attempts at targeted ads mostly negated by your favorite extension for blocking ads.
Your own peers, family who you should've been trusting? They're the ones who will frick you over.
2 years ago
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>Your own peers, family who you should've been trusting? They're the ones who will frick you over.
Nobody's forcing you to give your phone number to regular people, moron.
Frick off butthole, I don't want or need companies having my PERSONAL phone number to sell to unsavory pajeet call centers trying to scam me, useless homosexual.
Doxxing yourself in front of a bunch of autists on Ganker is not the same as giving out your personal data to a company which has to abide by data protection laws or get fricked in the ass big time.
>a company which has to abide by data protection laws or get fricked in the ass big time.
Oopsie woopsie, we lost all your information to some random hacker again. :/
>or get fricked in the ass big time
lmao when did that ever happen? look at how many data breaches have happened and show me how many times were impacted customers compensated
>i know you can text, video call, etc. using apps on wi-fi for free but you NEED a phone that can receive SMS messages to play our game
hilarious how you think fear and hiding have anything to do with this
This! I'd rather not give my phone number to a company of rapists and molesters. Please don't let Blizzard memory hole that the majority of their employees is savage animals. Remind them at any chance you have.
Furgays don't understand because they show their fetishes out in the open, but this is absolutely a terrible idea. Erosion of privacy happens when governments and corporations get worse, not better. They aren't tracking you because they deserve your trust. And it's not like an institution with that much power will only use it fairly.
>he thinks there's a distance between government surveillance and corporate surveillance
You're a disingenuous moron because you could be posting on Facebook right now if you believe that.
stop lying, adding your phone number just gets you a prime account which is supposed to help against cheaters
non prime accounts can still play ranked, just not against prime accounts
>lock you out of your shit >free game >class action lawsuit
I get that you spergs hate Blizzard with a passion, I even understand why and agree with some of the reasons. That being said, holy fricking christ you are moronic. How do you even function in your every day life without just accidentally dying somehow?
This. My carrier is technically not considered post paid by the FTC, so Blizzard won't allow me to use the number I've had for 15 years to play the game I paid for years ago. They're literally stealing my game because I'm not a dumb goy who spends $100 a phone plan.
what's a game you play a lot? we'll replace it with a free, worse version of it. also, we require your personal information otherwise you can't play it. we won't allow you to play the original version, of course. no refunds
Steam as a platform is far more valuable than a fricking Blizzard account. The phone stuff is just to help make sure people can't access your account in but they still don't force it.
People have been navigating their towns for decades before iphones were invented. Were you born after 2004?
>towns
try living in a city
fricking ruralcuck
2 years ago
Anonymous
Check google maps before leaving house. Write turn by turn directions on paper if needed. Phones are for dumb goyim.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I just ask the nearest corner shop they always know.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Using ~~*Jewgle*~~ for anything
AskJeeves chads remain untouched
2 years ago
Anonymous
What's the point of the echos meme if you're going to say israelite anyway
2 years ago
Anonymous
Shitposting
2 years ago
Anonymous
>ruralcuck
I can do plein air painting, (as soon as it's not 85+) jog and see all of the christmas lights with my family, and work nightshift at a store without worrying about homeless Black folk on crack
I just walk and usually end up at my destination. It's kind of like how you can pick up any tool or device and figure out how it vaguely works just by fiddling around with it for a bit. If something was designed by humans, to be used by humans, then all you have to do is think like a human to figure out how it should be used. Needless to say civilisation, and roads in particular, are very human in design.
Just rub your hands all over everything like a dirty monkey, humans are basically just a pair of hands and eyes with a dysfunctional brain attached to them.
the map part is moronic but again how do you have a job? My last jobs communication was done almost completely through whatsapp (despite me insisting on e-mail communication for both)
>how do you even get around without maps
This is the literal only reason I have one of these cursed fricking smartphones. Dedicated GPS were just fricking awful, all the way up to like 2012-2013 when smartphone adoption finally hit damn near 100%
I want to be the only friend of a phoneless anon and make him emotionally dependent on me and then gaslight him into begging me to let him suck my wiener for validation.
in my country your employer is legally not allowed to contact you on private devices so pretty much everyone is just giving out work phones with which you are expected to do everything work related. helps with security as well to not have company secrets on your personal device
I dont have a phone either. No reason to. >WHAT IF YOU NEED THE POLICE
I live out in the god damn forest, the police cant even find me >WHAT IF A BURGLAR COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE
I shoot him. Maybe capture him and torture him in my basement. >WHAT IF A RELATIVE NEEDS TO CALL
My mother lives with me, my wife and 3 children. I don't need to call anyone else. They got nothing to tell me. >WHAT IF SOMETHING IMPORTANT NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION
Nah. Im good.
I don't understand why """people""" need to have their face glued to the internet 24/7. if you're outside then enjoy the great outdoors without getting worried of being tracked or getting harassed with spam calls/mail.
I don't either, never saw the need. If I'm out and about, it's for the best I'm disconnected from the Internet. And if anything catastrophically bad happens, the people I'm with will have one.
I don't have one. I have a home phone, but that literally fowards to an internet address that I ping onto my computer. I use that for everything, if they require a "mobile" I give them a gay sex worker bar phone.
How do you make accounts that require a phone number (not talking about vidya, actual important accounts), or for stuff that requires 2FA security? Do you basically do nothing online?
My bank doesn't require a phone but I do need to input a code that I use my card in this machine to get a code. Everything else, I just don't use if they try to force me to 2fa.
I don't use phones either. I have neither a landline nor a cellphone and there is no law requiring me to get one. People keep trying to get me to buy one but I always give them a simple answer: "Sure, I will take one. Please order me a <insert current iphone> you can drop it off at my place." They always get pissed and threaten me but I couldn't give less shit about it.
This ofc. means I can't hold a job longer than the minimum contract release signed when they hired me. I make sure to only let them know I don't have a phone a few months in. They are by law required to send me all work related documents by post. When my boss asks me how he can contact me I tell him to write me a letter. I don't even give a shit. After a year I can chill 6 months on welfare and they also get pissed and try to cut me out and sanction me but there's nothing they can do. They're also too cheap to just buy me a phone (that I would trash anyway) so they have no excuse.
It's not all great tho. I can't buy a car, or have a credit card, or make contracts or shop online or even buy a bus ticket. I do use fake public numbers from time to time tho.
Why? I just don't want a phone. I know my rights and that's it. I don't care about privacy or people spending more time on them. I'm no boomer or conspiracy believer. I just don't want one.
some don't
friend is taking care of a 10 years old and she doesnt have a cell
then you have moronic parents giving their iphone to their 3 years old kid so she can shut up
Yep, you can't even play OW1 now without a POST-PAID number
It literally tells you you can't use a pre-paid number
The game you bought is literally useless now
>Yep, you can't even play OW1 now without a POST-PAID number >It literally tells you you can't use a pre-paid number
WHAT THE FRICK?
China making the moves on the US to ensnare everyone in their bullshit digital surveillance? How does the US government not realize that TenCent has control over the telecomms now??? What reason could they possibly have for requiring a fricking PHONE CONTRACT to play the game I already purchased??? It's not even like month-to-month phone numbers are free, they're hardly any cheaper than contract, and probably people can get like family plans or business lines for cheaper than individual pre-paid plans...
The CIA and NSA know that by feeding the Chinese all of your information, they can easily tap into their network and use it to spy on you in the interest of homeland security.
>waaahh if idont wanna gib chinks my info they wont let me play the BIDEO GAME
Don't fricking comply then, you goddamned crybabies. Overwatch of a fricking things isn't some holy grail of entertainment. Do something else.
You're the fricking moron who didn't read the TOS. You already agreed with them that they can do this to you if you signed it, but you didn't care because you just had to have the BIDEO GAME
You braindead moron, you are the unthinking consumer that you think you hate.
why should I be ok with a future opressive dystopian government punishing me for my present action that they deem unacceptable in the future?
would you mind if in the future you're killed for being gay 20 years ago?
Let's say the government decided to access everyone's browser history. They'll see every access you had. >hope you didn't go to any porn website which is illegal in the future >got pics from an 18 yo girl? Too bad: by the new law, age of consent is 21 yo. Jail him. >he accessed Ganker?!?! He must certainly be a right-wing terrorist! Send him to the gullag!
If it's for something like a video game? None
If it's for something that actually matters? Same reason the government doesn't apply the same rules to themselves
Well we have learned through twitter that social acceptable stuff of the past can be used against you now, when it's suddenly not acceptable.
Also the "nothing to hide" argument is a lie anyway because that would imply you have never done anything shameful.
you ask the person making the statement to give you an extensive account of their information. Name, address, bank statements, account numbers, tax history, job history, education history, list of everyone they've ever known/associated with/dated, every place they've ever been etc etc etc
everyone has something to hide, they're just not thinking about it until pressed
There are those who do not hide this information from women, why would hiding it from corporations be any different?
Some people are just literally better and they gets lots of kisses by girls provided they're over 6 feet tall. They're the future.
6 years ago a men dressing as a woman was a joke, nowadays you turn unemployable if you say anything bad about that
Expecting to 100% conform to all current and future society values through your entire life without ever stepping out of the line at any point is a degree of perfection that only the most insanely moronic ego tripping homosexuals could possibly expect for themselves
once surveilance tools have been ingrained into society, there's no way to stop a future governing force you don't agree with to use it against you, and even retroactively punish you for things you did in the past. ever b***hed about Trump on twitter? Trump2 will throw you into a firepit because of it, have fun
>What is the argument against "if you have nothing to hide"
Argument is something like you can't trust other people. It's giving people who govern over you infinite trust that they have not earned and can never earn because only an idiot trusts strangers with total power.
So imagine you're somewhere in a bar or club or even at home and a guy you know pulls a knife out of his pocket and holds it in his hand. The schizo beings yelling >omg wtf put that away are you crazy? what you need that for anyway?
while the cool guy who trusts the government would say >it's just a knife bro, it's not like he's gonna open it
Then the guy opens the knife and the schizo guy loses his shit >what in the frick?!? why did you open it?!? close it and put it away now!
the glowbro then chimes in >what a fricking pussy, it's not like he's gonna stab you in the neck with it bro, just calm down we're all friends here, right? you trust friends, right?
Then the guy with the knife gets up from his chair and gets close to you while pointing the knife at your throat and again the schizo loses all his marbles and runs out of the room screaming while only you, the glowbro and the knife wielding maniac are left. >you know, if he wanted to stab you he would have done so from the beginning right? so just relax, he's not gonna do anything
said the fedposter.
And then you get your throat slit because you failed to act at every previous moment you had to block others from infringing on your personhood.
I guess you are fine with making a glass wall house where everyone can see you shit, jerk off, frick and do everyday activities. You are not doing anything illegal after all.
You're ok with me watching you shit right? After all, everyone shits, it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you sleep right? Everyone sleeps so it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you shower right? After all, you're not covered in dirt and grime so obviously you shower at least occasionally, it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you frick your wife, right? After all, I can see you have kids so if I watch you have sex with your wife it's not like I don't know you've already done it before. ok those last two might not apply to Ganker
You dumb baitposting moron, this has nothing to do with free speech or saying the nig-word. This is about giving your information to shady companies for them to do whatever with behind your back. Oh yeah and here's your (you), now go diddle your neo-vegana.
>shady companies
homie it's microsoft, if you use windows they already have all your precious data and if you don't why the frick do you care about a game that doesn't even run on troonix?
there's no "all the rest" you're giving this information to microsoft at the end of the day
neither activision nor microsoft has any need to sell your phone numbers to shady spam call centers, you're being fricking paranoid again over nothing because you're too moronic to evaluate who you can trust with your data
especially something as insignificant as a phone number
I guess this is one of the reasons game is "overwatch 2" now
they deleted ow1 which you bought
so now the game is no longer ow1 you bought, but ow2, so you can't sue them for a product you never purchased
of course, I really doubt that would hold in a serious court
The more info they got on you, the easier it is to manipulate you. As a simple example you could get different google results or maybe get the "true" results shifted to page 2 and such so you're lead to believe whatever the company wants.
A sheep with no fear.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
Every time you put your email, phone number, or any other personal identifier on a database by making an account, you're upping the chance of being a target of hacking attempts, identity theft etc.
These databases are inevitably breached, user information taken and sold on the darkweb. This is how most account hacks happen, user info gained from other breaches. information from different sources is easily put together to get a fuller picture of you, making it easy to at least attempt breaching your personal email/financial accounts or to commit crime in your name via identity theft.
The more accounts you have online with your personal info, the more chance you have of this happening. These companies objectively don't need your phone number, so it's shitty of them to require it and is pure datamining.
>but ive never been hacked!
Most people don't, doesn't change the objective fact that the chances are raised by these companies demanding sensitive personal info to use an account.
why the frick would i give bobby and his slant eyed friends my phone number what does that do for me in the game? what is the use of this?
oh. the usual, obvious "reasons".
And my information hasn't been sold. I've never been bombarded by sales calls or spam messages. Sounds like a tinfoil hat cope to me. I bet you're also terrified of using Windows 10 because you're paranoid about your CP collection being reported to MS and thus local authorities.
And my information hasn't been sold. I've never been bombarded by sales calls or spam messages. Sounds like a tinfoil hat cope to me. I bet you're also terrified of using Windows 10 because you're paranoid about your CP collection being reported to MS and thus local authorities.
>Cope.
Cope with what? That you were at forefront of homosexualry? >I was Black person cattle 15 years ago, therefore you have to become one too
>load up game >disable chat so I dont get banned for typing >disable voice chat so I dont get banned for speaking >look up meta chars so I dont get banned for picking characters that I like >mute all ingame sounds so I dont get sued for copyright infringement >buy burner phone so I can launch the game in the first place >buy battle pass and xp boost so I can have a reasonable pace of progress
Yep, it's gaming time
>Oh no, they are doing what EVERY other competitive games did previously >I wouldn't have bought any Blizzard game anyway but now I will buy it even less
I don't really see the issue. When you sign up to a Blizzard account and buy anything you give them tonnes of information already like your full name, address, billing address, email, etc. >just use fakes
Okay go ahead, but good luck getting your account back if you ever get hacked.
Blizz has had my phone number for over 8 years now as part of my account's TFA anyway.
giving a phone number for TFA is slighty different because as far as the information provided, giving away your phone number gets you something in return. blizzard is saying here we absolutely do not trust you, our consumers, to not say naughty words so you need to give us this or you cant play. im not taking advice from fricking blizzard they drink titty milk from bags.
If you're the kind of lovable goofy entertaining 6 foot 8 inches tall handsome boy with confidence and no insecurities or vulnerabilities, capable of satisfying a girl sexually without even once giving her a reason to doubt that you're anything but the perfect man, and therefore the only viable candidate for reproduction of our species, then you have nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.
Otherwise, you're a genetic dead end. Who would care about your data, incel nerd?
Most of the high level Blizzard execs who didn't come from gaming are ex-CIA. Ion Hazzikostas used to be a lawyer but he was a lawyer who worked for the CIA, especially on the cases where they covered up guantanamo bay tortures. With all of this in mind none of this should be surprising anymore. Blizzard at this point is a front for surveillance and they can get around regulations by making it voluntary on the customers part to give up all their privacy. Not even for free, they willingly pay to give it away.
>only midwit npc play game >no innovation or deviation from expected >game gets boring >gets dropped except by the most derange lunatics >not enough numbers to keep servers going >game dead
>Regulation is needed.
It's funny because most ToS exist twice: once for the US and once for everywhere else OR once for the EU and once for everywhere else. Of course, the US/non-EU ones always say "we can ban you for literally no reason lol"
The EU is plenty shit for many reasons, but they at least try to guarantee ownership over games and such. It's why Steam has such easy refunds now
Actually that's an interesting point. I don't know how they managed to overlap the Overwatch 1 license onto 2. To me Overwatch 2 is an entirely new product so being forced off Overwatch 1, particularly for Nintendo Switch users seems like MONEY STOLEN
My name an phone number has been associated with a breach for years along with email.
At most I get spam and a few login attempts.
I have not been pegged by the feds.
>have not been anally raped by anyone I've given my phone number to >anons screeching "POST IT IF YOU'RE NOT SCARED" would definitely at the very least try to order pizza and sign you up for spam, if not more malicious depending on how degenerate they are >do you know where you are dot jaypeg
oh... oh yeah
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/optus-hack-victims-queue-at-service-sa/101482508 >Queues are growing at South Australian licensing locations as victims of the Optus data breach scramble to protect their personal information but the government has urged people to be patient
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-27/optus-data-breach-cyber-attack-hacker-ransom-sorry/101476316 >The user claims to be selling the data, which includes email addresses, dates of birth, first and last names, phone numbers, drivers' licence and passport numbers..
let's be real, nu-Ganker wouldn't do shit with your phone number, they're too lazy and lack the spirit of the troll.
2 years ago
Anonymous
There's more people than ever and only one of them has to be autistic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
lol no way, this site's fricking dead, I have seen multiple threads stay up for two days on Ganker this week. that would have been unheard of a few years ago.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>lack the spirit of the troll
This art was lost a long time ago. No one trolls anymore, they actually set out to hurt people.
The internet lost its innocence and with it the fun and spirit of the internet itself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>No one trolls anymore, they actually set out to hurt people.
I never understood why kids now would go that far. We used to just call each other gay for doing stupid shit, but now kids would organize doxing campaigns over mispronouncing a Genshin character's name or misgendering a cookie in Cookie Run.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nothing is done for fun anymore, and genuine emotion is dead.
I remember when Blizzard tried to do something like this 10 years ago or so. Didn't one of their devs dump his info to try and prove people wrong, then had to go into hiding? Also got some other poor schmuck who shared his name fricked over in the process.
Another great example that comes to mind: Dobson's brother. That guy didn't even have to share his information, he lost his lucrative job because his idiot brother shared his own details while making inflation porn.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/13-million-players-compromised-in-nexon-hack >"The compromised data included ... registration numbers - the Korean equivalent of a US social security or UK national insurance number."
This is legitimately not to spy on you, or to keep the game's social functions "civil".
This is to manipulate the zoomies into buying phone service. They have a habit of not doing so.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/optus-hack-victims-queue-at-service-sa/101482508 >Queues are growing at South Australian licensing locations as victims of the Optus data breach scramble to protect their personal information but the government has urged people to be patient
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-27/optus-data-breach-cyber-attack-hacker-ransom-sorry/101476316 >The user claims to be selling the data, which includes email addresses, dates of birth, first and last names, phone numbers, drivers' licence and passport numbers..
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Every time you put your email, phone number, or any other personal identifier on a database by making an account, you're upping the chance of being a target of hacking attempts, identity theft etc.
These databases are inevitably breached, user information taken and sold on the darkweb. This is how most account hacks happen, user info gained from other breaches. information from different sources is easily put together to get a fuller picture of you, making it easy to at least attempt breaching your personal email/financial accounts or to commit crime in your name via identity theft.
The more accounts you have online with your personal info, the more chance you have of this happening. These companies objectively don't need your phone number, so it's shitty of them to require it and is pure datamining.
>but ive never been hacked!
Most people don't, doesn't change the objective fact that the chances are raised by these companies demanding sensitive personal info to use an account.
This is why you should keep your online accounts to a minimum, only what you absolutely need. The more accounts you have that needlessly ask for your personal info like phone numbers etc, the higher the chance of your info being gained in breaches and sold for malicious intent.
Well I don't know how most free online FPS game communities operate these days but wouldn't you want some basic deterrent to stop people from getting on the game and just spamming chat or cheating?
Those absolute motherfrickers! I wanted to play the game a bit before they kill it dead, and now they want my fricking phone number? They can absolutely get fricking fricked, yes I'm mad.
This. My carrier is technically not considered post paid by the FTC, so Blizzard won't allow me to use the number I've had for 15 years to play the game I paid for years ago. They're literally stealing my game because I'm not a dumb goy who spends $100 a phone plan.
yeah that's not gonna go over well at fricking all, lol, I seriously doubt that won't change within a few days, there's no way they would just lock over half of the population out of their game, not even Blizzard is that stupid
So far customer service has told me and others to contact our carriers and tell them to get their phone numbers classified as post paid with the FTC, which they are not going to do. There's backlash building on the announcement post and forums.
Take it as a 60$ lesson to never pay money for a DRM'd game again.
crazy how this is the direct result of automatic match making, MMR and competitive modes. Literally the most cancerous inventions in multiplayer gaming
This effects me in no way as I was not going to buy it in the first place.
If you don't agree with the conditions they are putting forward in order to play the game then don't buy it and play something else?
Ah yes, nothing bad is going to happen if I give my phone to a company that openly supports China and almost told them to "nuke the Hong Kong Black folk".
Blizzard and Ganker asking me to share my information with them is a false equivalence. Ganker is a malicious evil entity that calls me a homosexual, while Blizzard is a happy and caring group that has given me my childhood memories and the best moments of my life. You will not defeat us chuds. Together we are going to win! HEROES NEVER DIE
there won't be. most people nowadays unironically think like this bait post
Blizzard and Ganker asking me to share my information with them is a false equivalence. Ganker is a malicious evil entity that calls me a homosexual, while Blizzard is a happy and caring group that has given me my childhood memories and the best moments of my life. You will not defeat us chuds. Together we are going to win! HEROES NEVER DIE
i went to r*ddit and anyone expressing a negative opinion about this 1984 tier shit is literally downvoted to oblivion
youre not wrong there
its frightening
No there doesn't, phones are used for verification of fricking everything and normal human beings don't give a shit because they aren't schizos like you
>Class Action Lawsuit When?
did you agree to the TOS where it says they are allowed to change the terms of the TOS when they please?
Of course you did, otherwise you wouldn't be able to play it, so yes, you agreed to those, your "class action lawsuit" is lost, now go play mario
Dear non phone gays in this thread, just admit your poor and schizophrenic and move on already, if you cant afford a 30 dollar phone you shouldnt be allowed to use your internet
I want future-feudalism to arrive already so that my corporate overlords send me to fight nazi degenerates and the SJW-sandBlack person alliance on the dunes of Arrakis using nerve gas and laser tanks. This lame culture war shit we have today is so uninspired.
Is that a cop in a wheelchair? They didn't take my brother as a police officer because his spine is slightly crooked so he gets back pain every now and then, but US cops can be in a wheelchair? This has to just be "jim from accounting" that they stuffed into uniform for publicity, right?
Clearly a publicity stunt because the rest are women. And the vests say IRS so these aren't real cops, but probably the new people Biden hired to make sure the poors are paying their taxes.
Isn't it funny how the same people crying about having to have a phone number, are the same people calling everyone homosexuals, Black folk, and other insults?
Almost like they know they'd get banned instantly because they can't control themselves once they start losing or disagree with anyone on the internet.
For people who cry about "wrong-think" so much, they sure do get REALLY fricking mad/irritated at the people who don't agree with them
Irony, it's hilarious
Reminds me of when Blizzard forced real names on their forums. Took all of a day for someone to track down the grandmother of one of the community managers and threaten to bomb their house. Good times.
So if you own the first game (aka not playing for free), you don't have to do this? Someone said Valve also did this for Dota and I thought they were baiting, but I guess you do now for ranked queue. Fricking israeli tricks left and right.
>OW1 is going away once OW2 is out.
Jesus frick, this """sequel""" is more fricking moronic any time I learn something new about it. I'm sure they'll be shocked when they have 20 users total after a month.
Valve started it with CSGO and were initially caught selling users numbers to telemarketers (tons of people had bought prepaid unannounced sim cards just to use for the auth and all got contacted in a massive wave by pajeets).
>Nooo you can't have my phone number, that will link you to my identity unlike the ISP who knows the exact address of every connection made to them when I play the gmae
You are absolutely clueless if you think the government doesn't already know your number through your phone provider. Unless you are buying burner phones with cash you are a dipshit for thinking you have any real privacy from the government lmao
They already know your address you daft c**t. You have to give it to them when you make a payment.
>look, they've already got most of your information anyway, so what's a little more? >c'mon go... err... i mean guy! just give up this silly fight!
terry was right, a disturbing amount of people absolutely glow, and they want you to glow too
>Nooo you can't have my phone number, that will link you to my identity unlike the ISP who knows the exact address of every connection made to them when I play the gmae
You are absolutely clueless if you think the government doesn't already know your number through your phone provider. Unless you are buying burner phones with cash you are a dipshit for thinking you have any real privacy from the government lmao
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Microsoft Authenticator not require anything from your phone and just needs to make a handshake with the website/app?
Why not just do that if they want to do it for security reasons?
I didn't mean to suggest using a 3rd party tool.
Just steal the idea, it's basically what those physical dongles were already doing, just now it's a detached app on the phone.
>That moron that thought this was 2FA in another thread about this.
moron needs to understand Blizzard already enabled 2FA with an authenticator of theirs or a third party. This isn't 2FA, this is them gathering info for their Chinese (soon to be American if MS buys them in addition to ATVI) masters.
>Let's pretend that anon isn't moronic for a moment and pretend THIS *IS* 2FA
Even then it'd be a moronic move as SMS services (hence needing the phone number) can be fricking defeated and it's why most 2FA's are dropping SMS support for shit like GAuthenticator, Ubikeys, multifactor authenticators and the like.
LOL oversuiwatch trannies creating a safe-space for the snowflakes basedcucks and their troony GFs, truly censorship destroys the chud incel nazis hurr durr.
This is a genuine question, you guys have have no phones? Like seriously, do you communicate irl with anyone? I'm not even defending blizzard I'm just genuinely puzzled seeing you guys complaining about having to link a phone number to a free to play game
this is a genuine question, are you underaged? like seriously, have you never seen an inch being given? im not even calling you moronic, im just genuinely puzzled seeing somebody so young he cant see the ramifications of giving rat faced israelite Black folk an inch.
No I'm just mentally ill. I thought what I said was terribly funny and I'm still laughing about it.
I don't really care about giving people my deets cause I'm old. No 7 days in this b***h yet muh homie.
Seems like some of us don't. I have a landline (which I don't use, but it exists; byproduct of having an internet connection), but for some reason, it's not considered secure enough (I guess my home being invaded is more likely than a cellphone being stolen).
Communication with strangers/administrations/etc is text only (mail/email). If I have to talk with someone I know, I do it in person.
I don't see what's so unbelievable about it. People always react like it's some crazy thing.
As I mentioned in another thread, some EU countries give customers a right to audit/access/edit/deletion of their personal data on company servers. Trouble is no company I know has ever made the chages in place to allow fair use of those rights for a mass of clients; it's only ever anecdotal).
Could prove funny if many people decided to exercice their rights on OW2 - if only an audit on recorded conversations.
>i dont want to give my number, so i just wont play it >WHAT YOU MEAN YOU FRICKING CHUD! GGIVE YOUR NUMBER!! DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE?!?!!?! FRICKING RACIST NAZI CHUD I HOPE YOU DIE!!!
these people are so insecure its not enough to make their own mind about something, EVERYONE else has to have the same opinion or they start doubting their own choices
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
Shut up fed
No!
bait post
fpwp
There is no liberty without privacy.
Every anti-privacy measure taken is an anti-liberty.
ALL enemies of liberty must die.
>privacy
cope. an online game isn't a private space
Says the concentration camp shill.
>
those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
three letter agent glow very strong
T.Xi Jinping
He gets your info through Blizzard btw
This dumb argument gets used unironically all the time.
A government can retroactively punish you for crimes you have committed that weren't illegal yet at the time it happened. Then suddenly you care about privacy.
Good. They should be punished for breaking the law.
Please upload all messages from your phone onto a cloud storage website for all of us to read.
that's not what's being asked for in OP though
and posting your phone number on this board is far worse than giving it to blizzard, if that's anything to consider.
Will it be that much worse after the next account hack or data breach?
That's why I didn't ask for your phone number. I only asked for your messages which is pretty harmless in comparison.
Sure you have nothing to hide, right?
>I only asked for your messages which is pretty harmless in comparison.
you would be wrong
>Sure you have nothing to hide, right?
no i have lots of things to hide that's why I'm not sharing my messages
>no i have lots of things to hide that's why I'm not sharing my messages
What is it? CP? Drugs? Human trafficking? Are you a member of a terrorist cell?
i am the man who posts vidya games
I have contacted FBI and they're going to raid your house any time now. Just so you know you sick frick
tell them to watch out for the Amazon boxes they could trip
Not sharing? You a terrorist? Grooming kids? You must be or you'd obviously share that. Fess up.
Do you have anything to hide like taxes or insurance papers?
Says the man hiding in the shadows
How is that related to your phone number
Cool, post your address. You've got nothing to hide right?
I trust the government and massive corporations with my personal information, not individuals.
Individuals are evil and malicious. Large entities like companies are the good guys.
Heres your reply
>haha you're baiting XDDD
I'm being 100% serious. Companies never betrayed me, people did. It's people who are evil, not companies.
>no replies
So I guess none of you can prove me wrong, huh? typical
It was just such a profundly dumb statement people assumed you were trolling
nobody asked you, shill.
This unironically.
The most these corpos sucking off globohomosexual did to me are their attempts at targeted ads mostly negated by your favorite extension for blocking ads.
Your own peers, family who you should've been trusting? They're the ones who will frick you over.
>Your own peers, family who you should've been trusting? They're the ones who will frick you over.
Nobody's forcing you to give your phone number to regular people, moron.
And what are companies composed of?
can you leave your door wide open the next time you leave your house? you've got nothing to hide after all.
Frick off butthole, I don't want or need companies having my PERSONAL phone number to sell to unsavory pajeet call centers trying to scam me, useless homosexual.
>All these serious replies
God Zoomers are morons
Post your face here right now. You have nothing to hide right?
>take picture
>camera breaks bcuz 2 ugli
:'(
like you can do anything with it.
>AI generated image
what do you have to hide?
nothing to hide 🙂
puritybros rise up
wrong-think is a thing now.
Then why don't you post a picture of your ID?
Doxxing yourself in front of a bunch of autists on Ganker is not the same as giving out your personal data to a company which has to abide by data protection laws or get fricked in the ass big time.
Sounds like you have something to hide
>a company which has to abide by data protection laws or get fricked in the ass big time.
Oopsie woopsie, we lost all your information to some random hacker again. :/
>I trust companies
HAHAHAHA
>or get fricked in the ass big time
lmao when did that ever happen? look at how many data breaches have happened and show me how many times were impacted customers compensated
>a company which has to abide by data protection laws or get fricked in the ass big time.
GlowBlack person moron.
autistic newbie
Go jump off a cliff why don't you you fascist frick.
Or I just don't have a phone line.
What's next, requiring a passport to play vidya? I don't have one either.
I'm surprised you had the time to type this, what with Koticks wiener in your mouth.
>who needs privacy
Based. Anyone who plays overwatch isn't human anyway, just cattle.
I don't own a phone
I don't care if this is bait, there is real "people" that think like this
>You can trust us, OKAY? We're the good guys!
>i know you can text, video call, etc. using apps on wi-fi for free but you NEED a phone that can receive SMS messages to play our game
hilarious how you think fear and hiding have anything to do with this
>Say bad word
>Blizzard worker foxes you through phone number, rapes you and sends nude pictures of your corpse to your family
Screencap this
This! I'd rather not give my phone number to a company of rapists and molesters. Please don't let Blizzard memory hole that the majority of their employees is savage animals. Remind them at any chance you have.
ok, then give me your phone number
Why dont you post your adress
Got nothing to hide dont you?
The post that DESTROYED Ganker.
Furgays don't understand because they show their fetishes out in the open, but this is absolutely a terrible idea. Erosion of privacy happens when governments and corporations get worse, not better. They aren't tracking you because they deserve your trust. And it's not like an institution with that much power will only use it fairly.
Based. Chuds seething
dig the fricking hole.
Evading government surveillance made things like civil rights movements possible. You troll.
It's not the government and it's not your property.
>he thinks there's a distance between government surveillance and corporate surveillance
You're a disingenuous moron because you could be posting on Facebook right now if you believe that.
he's right you know
its okay when valve does it though right?
they lock you out of your shit suddenly?
CS GO won't let you play ranked without a phone number.
dude i cant fricking launch the game at all lmao
i cant press play
stop lying, adding your phone number just gets you a prime account which is supposed to help against cheaters
non prime accounts can still play ranked, just not against prime accounts
what about dota? is it the same?
Yeah you can you just have to purchase the game
>ow shill is moronic
FRICKING LIAR KYS
>lock you out of your shit
>free game
>class action lawsuit
I get that you spergs hate Blizzard with a passion, I even understand why and agree with some of the reasons. That being said, holy fricking christ you are moronic. How do you even function in your every day life without just accidentally dying somehow?
see
what's a game you play a lot? we'll replace it with a free, worse version of it. also, we require your personal information otherwise you can't play it. we won't allow you to play the original version, of course. no refunds
or maybe you shouldn't have invested so much of your time in a shitty game in the first place
valve lets you play without a number
the number just gets you into the non cheater queue
No its not, i wont give them my number either, you homosexual
Steam as a platform is far more valuable than a fricking Blizzard account. The phone stuff is just to help make sure people can't access your account in but they still don't force it.
You can actually get your twofactor without a phone number.
Wasn't playing anyways. Waiting for the porn.
Everyone is wearing burkas even the dudes because they identify as women.
Am I the only one who does not have a phone?
yes?
are you 12?
in my 40's
everyday i walk round and everyone has their face in the tiny screens i feel like the last survivor in a body snatcher movie
do you not have a job?
how do you even get around without maps
People have been navigating their towns for decades before iphones were invented. Were you born after 2004?
I use my memory lol
for a place you have never visited?
>towns
try living in a city
fricking ruralcuck
Check google maps before leaving house. Write turn by turn directions on paper if needed. Phones are for dumb goyim.
I just ask the nearest corner shop they always know.
>Using ~~*Jewgle*~~ for anything
AskJeeves chads remain untouched
What's the point of the echos meme if you're going to say israelite anyway
Shitposting
>ruralcuck
I can do plein air painting, (as soon as it's not 85+) jog and see all of the christmas lights with my family, and work nightshift at a store without worrying about homeless Black folk on crack
>try living in a city
>fricking ruralcuck
NGMI
I used a Thomas Guide in the mid 2000s as a courier. Its not that hard if you know the freeways.
I just walk and usually end up at my destination. It's kind of like how you can pick up any tool or device and figure out how it vaguely works just by fiddling around with it for a bit. If something was designed by humans, to be used by humans, then all you have to do is think like a human to figure out how it should be used. Needless to say civilisation, and roads in particular, are very human in design.
How do I think like a human?
They're crazy.
Just rub your hands all over everything like a dirty monkey, humans are basically just a pair of hands and eyes with a dysfunctional brain attached to them.
Are you incapable of driving anywhere without GPS?
kek everyone just ignored the first part of your post. classic Ganker
you dont need a mobile for a job homosexual
>see person
>walk up
>ask them where to go
this frightens the zoomer
>how do you even get around without maps
Jesus Christ, zoomers here are just too powerful.
>OMG HOW DO YOU WALK WITHOUT QUEST COMPASS
the map part is moronic but again how do you have a job? My last jobs communication was done almost completely through whatsapp (despite me insisting on e-mail communication for both)
>how do you even get around without maps
This is the literal only reason I have one of these cursed fricking smartphones. Dedicated GPS were just fricking awful, all the way up to like 2012-2013 when smartphone adoption finally hit damn near 100%
>How do you get around without maps?
Wth? You do realize maps are an actual physical product right? Its not a phone exclusive app...
what do you do for a living?
i can understand living without a smartphone, but you said without a phone.
>See zoomer couple on a date
>they both just look at their phones without saying a single world
It's time for a nuclear holocaust
>>Also saw people in their 40's or 50's on a date. Both were just looking at their phones.
It's really creepy
you no longer need a phone as an adult, are you a kid?
Any adult that works would have need of some sort of phone, even for a shitty entry level job.
Did you know back in the 90s and before almost no one had cell phones?
Yep that's right.
People still lived without cell phones.
The only thing they're necessary for is "verification" for corporations to track you.
You can send voice and text over the internet, there's literally no point in paying for a phone number and voice/text other than
"uhhhh you need one because corporations like Microsoft + Activision + Blizzard require you to"
Why do you not have a phone?
I wish I didn't. I only use it for things that require it.
you must be a NEET
I have never in my life had a smartphone, my current phone is an old ass piece of shit Nokia that just works.
? why not
you don't want a pocket sized computer?
Old phones cost less and I'm a cheap bastard, that is the only reason.
>pocket sized computer?
It's a personal information gathering and advertisement serving device.
>he says while using a computer
okay luddite
My computer runs 99% free open-source software
My entire operating system (GNU + LInux) is free open-source software
The only exception I made is Steam, video games, and AMDGPU firmware blob.
No, I never bought a smartphone. After the DSi I kinda just got bored of touchscreens
I want to be the only friend of a phoneless anon and make him emotionally dependent on me and then gaslight him into begging me to let him suck my wiener for validation.
I need it for work. Okta verify specifically needs the mobile app for my work VPN or i cant remote in.
PDI
Only person that bassicly never uses one? No. But im surprised you can get away without having one. Its basically a requirement to get a job.
in my country your employer is legally not allowed to contact you on private devices so pretty much everyone is just giving out work phones with which you are expected to do everything work related. helps with security as well to not have company secrets on your personal device
Sounds super moronic
no, I even changed bank because of that
I dont have a phone either. No reason to.
>WHAT IF YOU NEED THE POLICE
I live out in the god damn forest, the police cant even find me
>WHAT IF A BURGLAR COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE
I shoot him. Maybe capture him and torture him in my basement.
>WHAT IF A RELATIVE NEEDS TO CALL
My mother lives with me, my wife and 3 children. I don't need to call anyone else. They got nothing to tell me.
>WHAT IF SOMETHING IMPORTANT NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION
Nah. Im good.
mf lives in a slasher movie
>maybe capture him and torture him in my basement
He'll be fine, he is the slasher
I don't understand why """people""" need to have their face glued to the internet 24/7. if you're outside then enjoy the great outdoors without getting worried of being tracked or getting harassed with spam calls/mail.
based
its like those people who call you and you expect to answer
no b***h i can't save you i don't care who is dying on the other side of the phone
>This whole post
>But still pays for internet
The fricking IRONY is so palpable that I'm literally picking it out of my teeth.
Jesus Christ
same
I don't either, never saw the need. If I'm out and about, it's for the best I'm disconnected from the Internet. And if anything catastrophically bad happens, the people I'm with will have one.
Nah, I just got rid oh my phone and switched to a answering machine I check once at the end of the day
no dude i NEED it
>contacts: mom, dad, brother, work
>last text: 3 months ago
Wait until you work a job for the first time and a ton of shit is done through company apps
Yesterdsy there was another anon claiming to be phoneless but the inage he posted had phoneposter's aura of falseflagging attached to it
How dare you accuse me of being a liar esl. Assuming that it was me, of course
I don't have one. I have a home phone, but that literally fowards to an internet address that I ping onto my computer. I use that for everything, if they require a "mobile" I give them a gay sex worker bar phone.
How do you make accounts that require a phone number (not talking about vidya, actual important accounts), or for stuff that requires 2FA security? Do you basically do nothing online?
What? You mean not using Facebook?
no I mean important accounts related to online payments/bills//finance/banking often require a phone number and 2FA security.
My bank doesn't require a phone but I do need to input a code that I use my card in this machine to get a code. Everything else, I just don't use if they try to force me to 2fa.
I have an iphone but I only use it as a flash light, camera or to watch videos when I cook or shit.
Also, I've never had any time on it.
Nah, I don't have a cellphone either. I wouldn't even have a landline if I could get away with it.
I don't use phones either. I have neither a landline nor a cellphone and there is no law requiring me to get one. People keep trying to get me to buy one but I always give them a simple answer: "Sure, I will take one. Please order me a <insert current iphone> you can drop it off at my place." They always get pissed and threaten me but I couldn't give less shit about it.
This ofc. means I can't hold a job longer than the minimum contract release signed when they hired me. I make sure to only let them know I don't have a phone a few months in. They are by law required to send me all work related documents by post. When my boss asks me how he can contact me I tell him to write me a letter. I don't even give a shit. After a year I can chill 6 months on welfare and they also get pissed and try to cut me out and sanction me but there's nothing they can do. They're also too cheap to just buy me a phone (that I would trash anyway) so they have no excuse.
It's not all great tho. I can't buy a car, or have a credit card, or make contracts or shop online or even buy a bus ticket. I do use fake public numbers from time to time tho.
In my imagination you are the type of person to wear a tinfoil hat. Not that I mind what you are doing, you do you, it is just strange. Paranoid even.
Why? I just don't want a phone. I know my rights and that's it. I don't care about privacy or people spending more time on them. I'm no boomer or conspiracy believer. I just don't want one.
Because just as you mentioned, you are unable to do a lot of stuff because of it.
When the AI takes over this guy's gonna be the sole survivor
You have to be 18+ years or older to post on this website kid, stop telling on yourself.
Are you implying that kids don't own cell phones?
I'm implying young ones don't, yes.
not sure where you live but for the past decade phones have been the number 1 parenting tool (to the great detriment of the children)
are you moronic or something? there's no 1st world 10 year old that doesn't have a smartphone
some don't
friend is taking care of a 10 years old and she doesnt have a cell
then you have moronic parents giving their iphone to their 3 years old kid so she can shut up
Based parents of that 10-year-old. I hope they don't cave.
I don't have private phone, and i leave my work phone at my office. Does it count?
LMAO, get with the times, just get a phone
Sorry pal, got a used galaxy a8 yesterday. First phone aswell.
Now i have no clue what im supposed to do with a phone
I do have a phone but my phone number has expired
i didn't get one until 2019 when i got a job, just so i could call off work, now i quit and don't use it anymore
So if I bought OW1, do I still need to register a number?
Yep, you can't even play OW1 now without a POST-PAID number
It literally tells you you can't use a pre-paid number
The game you bought is literally useless now
Frick. I just put it in the download queue before I went to bed too.
>Yep, you can't even play OW1 now without a POST-PAID number
>It literally tells you you can't use a pre-paid number
WHAT THE FRICK?
China making the moves on the US to ensnare everyone in their bullshit digital surveillance? How does the US government not realize that TenCent has control over the telecomms now??? What reason could they possibly have for requiring a fricking PHONE CONTRACT to play the game I already purchased??? It's not even like month-to-month phone numbers are free, they're hardly any cheaper than contract, and probably people can get like family plans or business lines for cheaper than individual pre-paid plans...
The CIA and NSA know that by feeding the Chinese all of your information, they can easily tap into their network and use it to spy on you in the interest of homeland security.
the company is about to be bought by MS aka the US government. What are you on about?
>waaahh if idont wanna gib chinks my info they wont let me play the BIDEO GAME
Don't fricking comply then, you goddamned crybabies. Overwatch of a fricking things isn't some holy grail of entertainment. Do something else.
It's about literal thievery, you fricking moron
If you bought this shit you are now being refused service even though you didnt break any TOS
You're the fricking moron who didn't read the TOS. You already agreed with them that they can do this to you if you signed it, but you didn't care because you just had to have the BIDEO GAME
You braindead moron, you are the unthinking consumer that you think you hate.
>oy vey the tos. you goyim should have realized
>Why are you raping my dog and shooting my mom!?
>Shoulda read the TOS homie, it lets us do anything. Now roll up your shirt, you also owe us a kidney
>Comparing sharing your phone number with murdering someone, raping an animal and removing a kidney
post phone number
0451
wow, jensen was synched to the beat of my music.
thanks anon now i spilled water everywhere
Yes? He is absolutely right and you are most likely seething because of how much of a fool you are.
>paying money for videogames
>paying money for MULTIPLAYER videogames
>paying money for MULTIPLAYER MATCHMAKING ONLY videogames
you never owned it you moron
but i'm sure blm is happy for your 60$ donation to them, maybe they will remember you when they break into your house
>thievery
if you buy a car and then drive it too fast they will take your car and destroy it.
is that theft too you fricking dipshit.
I have never heard of anyones car being taken for speeding, but yes that is theft.
What is the argument against "if you have nothing to hide" anyway?
past data being used against you in the future
just show the current shitshow for abortion for a real world example
But then you do have things to hide. Why should your past actions, if serious enough, not be used against you?
why should I be ok with a future opressive dystopian government punishing me for my present action that they deem unacceptable in the future?
would you mind if in the future you're killed for being gay 20 years ago?
Let's say the government decided to access everyone's browser history. They'll see every access you had.
>hope you didn't go to any porn website which is illegal in the future
>got pics from an 18 yo girl? Too bad: by the new law, age of consent is 21 yo. Jail him.
>he accessed Ganker?!?! He must certainly be a right-wing terrorist! Send him to the gullag!
>What is the argument
My arm rummaging around your rectal cavity.
If it's for something like a video game? None
If it's for something that actually matters? Same reason the government doesn't apply the same rules to themselves
Well we have learned through twitter that social acceptable stuff of the past can be used against you now, when it's suddenly not acceptable.
Also the "nothing to hide" argument is a lie anyway because that would imply you have never done anything shameful.
The argument of human honesty, I do have something to hide, we all do
There is none. You are a corporation pawn so no "argument" is good against you. Consume.
There isn't. Only good people are allowed to live, and anyone who disagrees with that is evil and must die.
Just throw it back at whoever said it. Everyone has something to hide, anyone that says this is being a hypocrite
Nah, some people actually have nothing to hide.
Nah, you do. Even if it's exposing yourself to your enemy.
>idonthaveenemiesthough
You do.
Some people don't have enemies.
just in the slight off-chance you're not just shitposting
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
you ask the person making the statement to give you an extensive account of their information. Name, address, bank statements, account numbers, tax history, job history, education history, list of everyone they've ever known/associated with/dated, every place they've ever been etc etc etc
everyone has something to hide, they're just not thinking about it until pressed
There are those who do not hide this information from women, why would hiding it from corporations be any different?
Some people are just literally better and they gets lots of kisses by girls provided they're over 6 feet tall. They're the future.
your reply and non compliance telegraphs your fear
6 years ago a men dressing as a woman was a joke, nowadays you turn unemployable if you say anything bad about that
Expecting to 100% conform to all current and future society values through your entire life without ever stepping out of the line at any point is a degree of perfection that only the most insanely moronic ego tripping homosexuals could possibly expect for themselves
You dont need to conform to all social values. Just accept that you are evil and will rightfully be neutralized to make the world a Better Place.
once surveilance tools have been ingrained into society, there's no way to stop a future governing force you don't agree with to use it against you, and even retroactively punish you for things you did in the past. ever b***hed about Trump on twitter? Trump2 will throw you into a firepit because of it, have fun
Post your adress, your security and card name, your full name and geolocation
"Oh you have nothing to hide? Then take your clothes off. You have no problem showing everything to strangers, right? Then prove it."
What isn't something to hide today could be something to hide tomorrow, the government doesn't give a shit.
>this guy would actually let cops search his house without a warrant
you dont have the right to look
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from 5:28 to 6:30 encapsulates the entire counter argument literally to a T
in a different context yes but exactly on point still
I dont watch things that disagree with my worldview.
i have A LOT to hide
Futa porn isn't something to hide, it's something to share.
futa is christian vanilla tier compared to what i mean anon
no, I have veganaboy porn to hide
>What is the argument against "if you have nothing to hide"
Argument is something like you can't trust other people. It's giving people who govern over you infinite trust that they have not earned and can never earn because only an idiot trusts strangers with total power.
So imagine you're somewhere in a bar or club or even at home and a guy you know pulls a knife out of his pocket and holds it in his hand. The schizo beings yelling
>omg wtf put that away are you crazy? what you need that for anyway?
while the cool guy who trusts the government would say
>it's just a knife bro, it's not like he's gonna open it
Then the guy opens the knife and the schizo guy loses his shit
>what in the frick?!? why did you open it?!? close it and put it away now!
the glowbro then chimes in
>what a fricking pussy, it's not like he's gonna stab you in the neck with it bro, just calm down we're all friends here, right? you trust friends, right?
Then the guy with the knife gets up from his chair and gets close to you while pointing the knife at your throat and again the schizo loses all his marbles and runs out of the room screaming while only you, the glowbro and the knife wielding maniac are left.
>you know, if he wanted to stab you he would have done so from the beginning right? so just relax, he's not gonna do anything
said the fedposter.
And then you get your throat slit because you failed to act at every previous moment you had to block others from infringing on your personhood.
I guess you are fine with making a glass wall house where everyone can see you shit, jerk off, frick and do everyday activities. You are not doing anything illegal after all.
I like my veil of anonymity because it lets me say things to other people that I'm too much of a pussy to say irl with none of the consequences
You're ok with me watching you shit right? After all, everyone shits, it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you sleep right? Everyone sleeps so it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you shower right? After all, you're not covered in dirt and grime so obviously you shower at least occasionally, it's not like you have anything to hide.
You're ok with me watching you frick your wife, right? After all, I can see you have kids so if I watch you have sex with your wife it's not like I don't know you've already done it before.
ok those last two might not apply to Ganker
Privacy is an important part of living.
You dont need an argument against logical fallacies, duh. Everyone who unironically uses that "argument" is a bootlicker that needs to be shot
Have them give you their bank account number and password.
just use a temporary one homosexual there are loads available online
Try it moron, none of them work
ALL accounts, old OW1 ones too
then that's your cue to stop playing that chinese rubbish
is this only for new accounts, or do people who has already been playing ow1 for years have to add phone as well?
either way, fricking moronic
>wahhh i cant call people Black folk anymore muh freedumz
You dumb baitposting moron, this has nothing to do with free speech or saying the nig-word. This is about giving your information to shady companies for them to do whatever with behind your back. Oh yeah and here's your (you), now go diddle your neo-vegana.
>shady companies
homie it's microsoft, if you use windows they already have all your precious data and if you don't why the frick do you care about a game that doesn't even run on troonix?
>oh one thing has my information might as well give it to all the rest
do you realise how much of a moron you are?
there's no "all the rest" you're giving this information to microsoft at the end of the day
neither activision nor microsoft has any need to sell your phone numbers to shady spam call centers, you're being fricking paranoid again over nothing because you're too moronic to evaluate who you can trust with your data
especially something as insignificant as a phone number
You are arguing with a corporation pawn.
Anon you understand it's likely the u.s goverment pushing them to do this right? you want to sue the goverment?
I guess this is one of the reasons game is "overwatch 2" now
they deleted ow1 which you bought
so now the game is no longer ow1 you bought, but ow2, so you can't sue them for a product you never purchased
of course, I really doubt that would hold in a serious court
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear from those who buy your information.
>If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear from those who buy your information.
The more info they got on you, the easier it is to manipulate you. As a simple example you could get different google results or maybe get the "true" results shifted to page 2 and such so you're lead to believe whatever the company wants.
A sheep with no fear.
Imagine having so poor critical reading skills that you get suckered in by shit search results.
Why don't you livestream your entire life on Ganker then? Got something to hide?
Every time you put your email, phone number, or any other personal identifier on a database by making an account, you're upping the chance of being a target of hacking attempts, identity theft etc.
These databases are inevitably breached, user information taken and sold on the darkweb. This is how most account hacks happen, user info gained from other breaches. information from different sources is easily put together to get a fuller picture of you, making it easy to at least attempt breaching your personal email/financial accounts or to commit crime in your name via identity theft.
The more accounts you have online with your personal info, the more chance you have of this happening. These companies objectively don't need your phone number, so it's shitty of them to require it and is pure datamining.
>but ive never been hacked!
Most people don't, doesn't change the objective fact that the chances are raised by these companies demanding sensitive personal info to use an account.
>Class Action Lawsuit When?
Never, because everyone will it up, yourself included. Stop giving them money.
>play this game for free
>also give us your phone
nothing is free, usually "free" stuff is the most expensive of them all
thats the realest shit i heard have u considered writing a book
Why don't you want spam callers having your phone number? Got something to hide buddy?
>be american
>lose thousands of dollars to sue a company
>loses anyway
>pay more thousands of dollars for troubling their corporate overlords
>still playing blizzshit games
you get what you deserve blizzcattle
Oh herro fewwo Overratch prayers! This will herp against hackers and smurfs! Not data harvest for the (glorious) CCP! we promise!
why the frick would i give bobby and his slant eyed friends my phone number what does that do for me in the game? what is the use of this?
oh. the usual, obvious "reasons".
I've had my phone number attached to my BNET/WoW account for like 15 years. Cope.
that really doesnt effect anyone but you and nobody in this thread cares about you
And my information hasn't been sold. I've never been bombarded by sales calls or spam messages. Sounds like a tinfoil hat cope to me. I bet you're also terrified of using Windows 10 because you're paranoid about your CP collection being reported to MS and thus local authorities.
Im scared of using win10? You wanna stay on topic anon?
>Cope.
Cope with what? That you were at forefront of homosexualry?
>I was Black person cattle 15 years ago, therefore you have to become one too
both of you are uinder Arrest
>plays blizzard products
You don't deserve anything, cuck.
I ctrl fed and didn't notice anyone checking these fricking TRIPS, how odd. Also waste of trips.
i'm OP and i'm banning you from this thread, homosexual
>load up game
>disable chat so I dont get banned for typing
>disable voice chat so I dont get banned for speaking
>look up meta chars so I dont get banned for picking characters that I like
>mute all ingame sounds so I dont get sued for copyright infringement
>buy burner phone so I can launch the game in the first place
>buy battle pass and xp boost so I can have a reasonable pace of progress
Yep, it's gaming time
>having fun not included, its separate DLC.
>giving a corporation your credit card info
uhh bro?? they're literally gonna empty your bank account and hack you and steal your identity
>Oh no, they are doing what EVERY other competitive games did previously
>I wouldn't have bought any Blizzard game anyway but now I will buy it even less
name any other free game
>Just give us your phone number goy
Hahaha no
>playing multiplayer match type of games
I too was a teenager once.
What? You guys don't have phones?
I don't really see the issue. When you sign up to a Blizzard account and buy anything you give them tonnes of information already like your full name, address, billing address, email, etc.
>just use fakes
Okay go ahead, but good luck getting your account back if you ever get hacked.
Blizz has had my phone number for over 8 years now as part of my account's TFA anyway.
giving a phone number for TFA is slighty different because as far as the information provided, giving away your phone number gets you something in return. blizzard is saying here we absolutely do not trust you, our consumers, to not say naughty words so you need to give us this or you cant play. im not taking advice from fricking blizzard they drink titty milk from bags.
If you're the kind of lovable goofy entertaining 6 foot 8 inches tall handsome boy with confidence and no insecurities or vulnerabilities, capable of satisfying a girl sexually without even once giving her a reason to doubt that you're anything but the perfect man, and therefore the only viable candidate for reproduction of our species, then you have nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.
Otherwise, you're a genetic dead end. Who would care about your data, incel nerd?
Most of the high level Blizzard execs who didn't come from gaming are ex-CIA. Ion Hazzikostas used to be a lawyer but he was a lawyer who worked for the CIA, especially on the cases where they covered up guantanamo bay tortures. With all of this in mind none of this should be surprising anymore. Blizzard at this point is a front for surveillance and they can get around regulations by making it voluntary on the customers part to give up all their privacy. Not even for free, they willingly pay to give it away.
This isn't some Q Anon shit. Just look it up.
so glad im not american
I don't have a phone. It's a waste of money, when was the last time you actually called someone?
My family can just email me or send a letter.
Phones are tools. Any tool has it's uses, only fools would claim otherwise.
Phone numbers filter shitters, NEETs, schizos, and third-worlders.
Good riddance.
>only midwit npc play game
>no innovation or deviation from expected
>game gets boring
>gets dropped except by the most derange lunatics
>not enough numbers to keep servers going
>game dead
What a good customer.
Please buy dog shit from me and dont ask anything.
Gosh, i hope there is more customers like you.
>he thinks 3rd worlders don't have phones
HAHAHA you're incredibly moronic
>Agree to Terms of Use
>CLASS ACTIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
>Terms of Use
>you own nothing, we own you
>Oh, yes please
Regulation is needed.
>implying laws are enacted fairly
>Regulation is needed.
It's funny because most ToS exist twice: once for the US and once for everywhere else OR once for the EU and once for everywhere else. Of course, the US/non-EU ones always say "we can ban you for literally no reason lol"
The EU is plenty shit for many reasons, but they at least try to guarantee ownership over games and such. It's why Steam has such easy refunds now
Link to Overwatch'e TOS in 2017 that said they would require phone numbers in 2022?
terms of use was updated since then
you agreed to a new one
No I didn't
Where's my refund?
This is not Overwatch 1
Then why did it replace Overwatch 1?
they took away Overwatch 1 from me because of this this game. where's my refund?
yes it is
Actually that's an interesting point. I don't know how they managed to overlap the Overwatch 1 license onto 2. To me Overwatch 2 is an entirely new product so being forced off Overwatch 1, particularly for Nintendo Switch users seems like MONEY STOLEN
I want to play overwatch 1, I bought the game back in 2017. Where's my game blizzard?
ToS are unenforceable and have never stood up in court.
ToS have no power in court if they contradict common sense/country laws. Predictably, blizzshill basement dwelling troony too dumb to know that.
TOS have literally no legal power. Or do you believe that Blizzard can add "we can come to your house and kill you" and it would hold in court, lmao?
so who's gonna foot the bill to have this heard in court
There's precedent + common sense you can't know what the ToS says before you actually buy something (not applicable to OW2 since it's free)
Do you not know what a class action lawsuit is?
>we can come to your house and kill you
I think nu-blizzard is seriously overestimating people's desire to play their next dogshit-flavor game
>I already added a phone number
I just clicked that shit and game launched. I never added the phone number in the first place
This is why I don't play games anymore especially online even steam has turned into aids
Overwatch is dead. Play better games.
Honestly if you're butthurt about this kind of stuff it's probably because you're a pedo trying to hide his kiddy porn stash or something.
Only criminals fear this shit.
Post your phone number.
Post the contents of your hard drive. You have nothing to hide, right?
full name and home address, please?
I live at my house.
You have nothing to hide right? Post address
newbies
Which is where exactly? And what is your full legal name?
I'll also need your SSN.
only Black personbrained morons defend billionaire companies when they're shitting on your face
Hey, YOU bought the game, not me. It's their intellectual property.
>Hey, YOU bought the game
Yeah and now it's being taken away after only 5 years
>he bought blizzard game
>he seethes
serves you right
>having all your personal info gathered up in online security breeches and sold to hackers/criminals is ok because... it just IS OK!
My name an phone number has been associated with a breach for years along with email.
At most I get spam and a few login attempts.
I have not been pegged by the feds.
>I'm only getting anally raped a little bit
>have not been anally raped by anyone I've given my phone number to
>anons screeching "POST IT IF YOU'RE NOT SCARED" would definitely at the very least try to order pizza and sign you up for spam, if not more malicious depending on how degenerate they are
>do you know where you are dot jaypeg
oh... oh yeah
sounds like you got something to hide. what are you scared of?
i say Black person a lot in my texts
see
let's be real, nu-Ganker wouldn't do shit with your phone number, they're too lazy and lack the spirit of the troll.
There's more people than ever and only one of them has to be autistic.
lol no way, this site's fricking dead, I have seen multiple threads stay up for two days on Ganker this week. that would have been unheard of a few years ago.
>lack the spirit of the troll
This art was lost a long time ago. No one trolls anymore, they actually set out to hurt people.
The internet lost its innocence and with it the fun and spirit of the internet itself.
>No one trolls anymore, they actually set out to hurt people.
I never understood why kids now would go that far. We used to just call each other gay for doing stupid shit, but now kids would organize doxing campaigns over mispronouncing a Genshin character's name or misgendering a cookie in Cookie Run.
Nothing is done for fun anymore, and genuine emotion is dead.
>>have not been anally raped by anyone I've given my phone number to
Yet. What's your number, anon?
Post your butthole? You have nothing to hide right?
>eats shit
>OUTRAGEOUS HOW I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT TASTES LIKE SHIT
Stop playing blizzard games you dumb morons.
Note the refusal to relinquish information every single time one of these people is asked. Guess they did have something to fear after all!
just press the x button?
I remember when Blizzard tried to do something like this 10 years ago or so. Didn't one of their devs dump his info to try and prove people wrong, then had to go into hiding? Also got some other poor schmuck who shared his name fricked over in the process.
Another great example that comes to mind: Dobson's brother. That guy didn't even have to share his information, he lost his lucrative job because his idiot brother shared his own details while making inflation porn.
I dont think they got to the guy who had the same name but they sure got his mum and started giving her shit, so blizzard backed down
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/13-million-players-compromised-in-nexon-hack
>"The compromised data included ... registration numbers - the Korean equivalent of a US social security or UK national insurance number."
>Don't you guys have smartphones?
fricking kek.
This is legitimately not to spy on you, or to keep the game's social functions "civil".
This is to manipulate the zoomies into buying phone service. They have a habit of not doing so.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/optus-hack-victims-queue-at-service-sa/101482508
>Queues are growing at South Australian licensing locations as victims of the Optus data breach scramble to protect their personal information but the government has urged people to be patient
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-27/optus-data-breach-cyber-attack-hacker-ransom-sorry/101476316
>The user claims to be selling the data, which includes email addresses, dates of birth, first and last names, phone numbers, drivers' licence and passport numbers..
This is why you should keep your online accounts to a minimum, only what you absolutely need. The more accounts you have that needlessly ask for your personal info like phone numbers etc, the higher the chance of your info being gained in breaches and sold for malicious intent.
what's holding you back from buying a preloaded simcard?
Glow Man very bright. I see you even in night.
Black bastard glow very hard.
I use 911 and random numbers for my phone number
You guys don't have phones?
Oh boy another episode of leftist corporate wienersucking
Well I don't know how most free online FPS game communities operate these days but wouldn't you want some basic deterrent to stop people from getting on the game and just spamming chat or cheating?
and they need my personal information for that?
I don't know what else they can really do beyond having a lot of moderators around. Maybe solutions like
pointed out work well
This shit was solved in titanfall by stealth banning people to an cheater queue where they would only meet scum like them
anit cheat system and mute
been there for decades
@613524023
Exquisite bait, anon. Good job.
Still not giving you a (You), though.
>israel
Those absolute motherfrickers! I wanted to play the game a bit before they kill it dead, and now they want my fricking phone number? They can absolutely get fricking fricked, yes I'm mad.
This. My carrier is technically not considered post paid by the FTC, so Blizzard won't allow me to use the number I've had for 15 years to play the game I paid for years ago. They're literally stealing my game because I'm not a dumb goy who spends $100 a phone plan.
ok, you didn't say it's post paid only
yeah that's not gonna go over well at fricking all, lol, I seriously doubt that won't change within a few days, there's no way they would just lock over half of the population out of their game, not even Blizzard is that stupid
So far customer service has told me and others to contact our carriers and tell them to get their phone numbers classified as post paid with the FTC, which they are not going to do. There's backlash building on the announcement post and forums.
Lesson learned.
Take it as a 60$ lesson to never pay money for a DRM'd game again.
Just remember if any of you play Overwatch 2 next week you're all hypocrites
how will a phone do that? will they call you to your phone and cream at you?
>cream at you?
oh do behave
link the phone to your ID and call the cops on you. 5 years of prison at least
you weren't supposed to play it in a first place.
Truth is the game was rigged from the start
crazy how this is the direct result of automatic match making, MMR and competitive modes. Literally the most cancerous inventions in multiplayer gaming
This effects me in no way as I was not going to buy it in the first place.
If you don't agree with the conditions they are putting forward in order to play the game then don't buy it and play something else?
the problem is that a lot of people who already paid for OW1 years ago wanted to come back before they kill the game. It's disgusting israelitery
Come back to what?
OW isn't the same game it was at launch, i'dhave been pissed if the game I bought at full turned into barrier simulator like that
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Getting this using trimmed waifu difusion.
It still works which is fine, but does this mean there is a new 1.5 model or something?
overwatch was always shit, stop giving blizzard your money
Ah yes, nothing bad is going to happen if I give my phone to a company that openly supports China and almost told them to "nuke the Hong Kong Black folk".
Blizzard and Ganker asking me to share my information with them is a false equivalence. Ganker is a malicious evil entity that calls me a homosexual, while Blizzard is a happy and caring group that has given me my childhood memories and the best moments of my life. You will not defeat us chuds. Together we are going to win! HEROES NEVER DIE
I hope so but just so blizzard loses money. Class actions dont benefit anyone but the lawyers usually.
There needs to be a huge stink around this phone verification nonsense
there won't be. most people nowadays unironically think like this bait post
i went to r*ddit and anyone expressing a negative opinion about this 1984 tier shit is literally downvoted to oblivion
youre not wrong there
its frightening
GENUINELY how is this 1984 shit. you sound like a schizo. they’d be able to find out where you live anyway. it does not matter.
i also meant the voice chat being recorded to be scanned for hate words
Its corporate enforced positivity, a quasi-religion of love
it only records a small amount of time AFTER someone reports you
motherfricker, do you REALLY believe that?
how gullible must you be
are you really that fricking stupid to think they have the resources record every single person in every single match 24/7 365? you’re the moron here.
they make money selling personal information, of course they have the resources to collect more personal information lol
why the frick are you talking about personal information in overwatch lobbies
you have no idea how this shit works
>you have no idea how this shit works
it just so happens that i do, shitlord
this shit doesn't have to run serverside, moron
the game can send the transcripts to the server moron, and it'd work just like text chat
homosexual
Yes because I'm not moronic like you and unable to math out the completely unfeasible amount of data storage and bandwidth total recording would take
I know it's been a while but use your fricking brain for once
No there doesn't, phones are used for verification of fricking everything and normal human beings don't give a shit because they aren't schizos like you
YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE PHONES???
Ganker is just mad about this because they can’t make 10 new accounts whenever they get banned
I'm never gonna touch this game to begin with. I'm concerned with the precedent it sets
Can't you guys meme a mudslime to allahu akbar Blizzard and end it?
No, because mudslimes are a israelite meme. We have no power over them.
Reminder.
>Class Action Lawsuit When?
did you agree to the TOS where it says they are allowed to change the terms of the TOS when they please?
Of course you did, otherwise you wouldn't be able to play it, so yes, you agreed to those, your "class action lawsuit" is lost, now go play mario
Dear non phone gays in this thread, just admit your poor and schizophrenic and move on already, if you cant afford a 30 dollar phone you shouldnt be allowed to use your internet
and what are you gonna do about? pee yourself?
I can afford it what are you on about? I'm still not gonna get one.
$30 phones ARE the ones you can't use. You can only use a phone under a plan.
kys Black person
I want future-feudalism to arrive already so that my corporate overlords send me to fight nazi degenerates and the SJW-sandBlack person alliance on the dunes of Arrakis using nerve gas and laser tanks. This lame culture war shit we have today is so uninspired.
Yeah. We are in a cyberpunk dystopia without all the cool shit to make up for it.
We are in the gayest moronic dystopian nightmare future. All the people in power are literal moronic homosexuals.
Is that a cop in a wheelchair? They didn't take my brother as a police officer because his spine is slightly crooked so he gets back pain every now and then, but US cops can be in a wheelchair? This has to just be "jim from accounting" that they stuffed into uniform for publicity, right?
Clearly a publicity stunt because the rest are women. And the vests say IRS so these aren't real cops, but probably the new people Biden hired to make sure the poors are paying their taxes.
Yeah that checks out
If THOSE are the people knocking on my door when I don't pay taxes, I'm done paying taxes
literally illegal in the eu
do you guys not have phones?
I had my phone set on my account years ago, I don't see the big deal about this
>I was anally raped years ago already, dont see the issue here
do you guys not have phones?
Isn't it funny how the same people crying about having to have a phone number, are the same people calling everyone homosexuals, Black folk, and other insults?
Almost like they know they'd get banned instantly because they can't control themselves once they start losing or disagree with anyone on the internet.
For people who cry about "wrong-think" so much, they sure do get REALLY fricking mad/irritated at the people who don't agree with them
Irony, it's hilarious
You still haven't posted your phone number.
Why would I post it here? It's not required
Lead by example.
Why are you scared?
Do you have anything to hide?
>homosexuals, Black folk
But you just said all that...
i'm afraid I'm gonna have to report you to blizzard. No hard feelings.
Reminds me of when Blizzard forced real names on their forums. Took all of a day for someone to track down the grandmother of one of the community managers and threaten to bomb their house. Good times.
So if you own the first game (aka not playing for free), you don't have to do this? Someone said Valve also did this for Dota and I thought they were baiting, but I guess you do now for ranked queue. Fricking israeli tricks left and right.
No, you will have to do this as OW1 is going away once OW2 is out.
>OW1 is going away once OW2 is out.
Jesus frick, this """sequel""" is more fricking moronic any time I learn something new about it. I'm sure they'll be shocked when they have 20 users total after a month.
OW2 is just OW repackaged, we knew that since day 1
Valve started it with CSGO and were initially caught selling users numbers to telemarketers (tons of people had bought prepaid unannounced sim cards just to use for the auth and all got contacted in a massive wave by pajeets).
I can't believe any of you morons are still dealing with this company.
B-BUT ITS DIFFERENT NOW
THEY'RE WITH MICROSOFT!
Deal is not complete yet.
>my phone number doesn't work
>apparently NONE of the phone numbers from my carrier work
Fricking kek. God I hate Blizz.
in the future all multiplayer games with have kernel level anti-cheat and force you to submit a phone number
You mean how South Korea does it now?
just use a google voice number moron
Has anyone tried using a pizza place's number yet, or does it have you verify with a text?
Then stop asking dumb fricking questions like "wut u have 2 hide??"
Hows that affect PC bangs? Didn't they have a deal to get a lot of free accounts?
Is a phone number that much? If you've ever given Blizzard money they already know your home address.
He finally got his revenge
That game sucks, just dont play it.
>We need your phone number
Okay not the biggest de--
>No no we need your phone number attached to either a landline or is part of a major corporation's system or else you're not allowed to play
You need a phone to play Blizz games, I thought we already established this?
>oh no they'll know your cell phone number
It's fricking nothing.
kys glowBlack person
meds now
>look, they've already got most of your information anyway, so what's a little more?
>c'mon go... err... i mean guy! just give up this silly fight!
terry was right, a disturbing amount of people absolutely glow, and they want you to glow too
I hate that the more time passes, the more I agree with that unfortunate mentally ill man. maybe he was more sane than a lot of us
>Nooo you can't have my phone number, that will link you to my identity unlike the ISP who knows the exact address of every connection made to them when I play the gmae
You are absolutely clueless if you think the government doesn't already know your number through your phone provider. Unless you are buying burner phones with cash you are a dipshit for thinking you have any real privacy from the government lmao
They already know your address you daft c**t. You have to give it to them when you make a payment.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Microsoft Authenticator not require anything from your phone and just needs to make a handshake with the website/app?
Why not just do that if they want to do it for security reasons?
I'd imagine it costs money to use Microsoft's Authenticator as their service and they don't want to pay
I didn't mean to suggest using a 3rd party tool.
Just steal the idea, it's basically what those physical dongles were already doing, just now it's a detached app on the phone.
Being too public with yourself is a blight in modern society
No one should use their own name and face on the internet
I hope you've never ordered anything online.
I actually never did, i prefer my stuff to be locally made
Wowniggies better prepare their rectum cause they will definitively push this for dragonflight
>we don't know how to deal with it so haha give us your phone number
shut down your company israelite
If the dumb fricks didn't make their game F2P they wouldn't have to worry about this
we need this in more games
it slows down hacker gays on PC
>play for free
is there a paid option that doesnt require giving a number?
No.
Even if you paid for Overwatch 1, they are deleting that.
People who can't play Overwatch anymore:
- People who don't want to give their number
- People who don't have phone numbers (other countries, poor people, Richard Stallman people, kids, NEETs, small gaming cafes or tournaments, etc.)
- People who literally don't have a compatible phone number because they use certain prepaid phone services
>paying for a game
>they never tell they gonna close the game and that you need to give more things to play the next one
truly an amazing era
guess ill pass then, thanks for the qrd
>That moron that thought this was 2FA in another thread about this.
moron needs to understand Blizzard already enabled 2FA with an authenticator of theirs or a third party. This isn't 2FA, this is them gathering info for their Chinese (soon to be American if MS buys them in addition to ATVI) masters.
>Let's pretend that anon isn't moronic for a moment and pretend THIS *IS* 2FA
Even then it'd be a moronic move as SMS services (hence needing the phone number) can be fricking defeated and it's why most 2FA's are dropping SMS support for shit like GAuthenticator, Ubikeys, multifactor authenticators and the like.
LOL oversuiwatch trannies creating a safe-space for the snowflakes basedcucks and their troony GFs, truly censorship destroys the chud incel nazis hurr durr.
wouldn't places outside of the US challenge this hard?
This is a genuine question, you guys have have no phones? Like seriously, do you communicate irl with anyone? I'm not even defending blizzard I'm just genuinely puzzled seeing you guys complaining about having to link a phone number to a free to play game
this is a genuine question, are you underaged? like seriously, have you never seen an inch being given? im not even calling you moronic, im just genuinely puzzled seeing somebody so young he cant see the ramifications of giving rat faced israelite Black folk an inch.
Oh no! Not the phone number!
My mom has my phone number and she's the last person I want to talk to.
so thats a yes then. ok.
my advice is to flee this place while you still can.
No I'm just mentally ill. I thought what I said was terribly funny and I'm still laughing about it.
I don't really care about giving people my deets cause I'm old. No 7 days in this b***h yet muh homie.
I have a phone to read books on. I do not have a phone number because that's a waste of money.
Seems like some of us don't. I have a landline (which I don't use, but it exists; byproduct of having an internet connection), but for some reason, it's not considered secure enough (I guess my home being invaded is more likely than a cellphone being stolen).
Communication with strangers/administrations/etc is text only (mail/email). If I have to talk with someone I know, I do it in person.
I don't see what's so unbelievable about it. People always react like it's some crazy thing.
As I mentioned in another thread, some EU countries give customers a right to audit/access/edit/deletion of their personal data on company servers. Trouble is no company I know has ever made the chages in place to allow fair use of those rights for a mass of clients; it's only ever anecdotal).
Could prove funny if many people decided to exercice their rights on OW2 - if only an audit on recorded conversations.
>i dont want to give my number, so i just wont play it
>WHAT YOU MEAN YOU FRICKING CHUD! GGIVE YOUR NUMBER!! DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE?!?!!?! FRICKING RACIST NAZI CHUD I HOPE YOU DIE!!!
these people are so insecure its not enough to make their own mind about something, EVERYONE else has to have the same opinion or they start doubting their own choices
meanwhile cronus/xim cheaters continue cheating undetected
So grow up and move out of your parents basement, you can't even do banking without a phone nowadays
this but unironically
rope
trump lost
Good thing too. You still deserve the rope.
Why don't you listen to him for once, Ganker? You're just going to keep getting burned.
And remember, they'll still ban you without doing anything and steal all your spent money.
>can't play anymore
You never could, phone number is a f2p requirement and the game wasn't f2p before
I already found the better game.
Does Paladins have any other skins? This is the only one you've only ever posted.