It would also be nice if people could stay longer in the work force. The way I read the results, recipients had more access to health care, abused substances less and had more time to recover after work.
Having an hour less in the work week should be balanced against being productive for longer.
We used to worry about trackers duplicating and profiling our player base back when we were running multi-billion dollar mobile games. F2P monetization being the long-tail beast it is, you really worry about ad platforms understanding your revenue dynamics. It was actually the managers who were worrying about trackers rather than the other way around.
I don’t know if you can find a similar argument in your industry, but losing the long tail to customer profiling can be a good string to pull.
That Addendum has caused considerable consternation among game developers and — to my knowledge — few are prepared to sign it.
The main points of contention are:
- the technology fee (the cost of advertising has already cut badly into their margins in the wake of identifier reform);
- the clause making the Addendum also binding on any corporate parents and subsidiaries — the game industry is pretty consolidated and this limits the options for independent game studios which are also subsidiaries;
The fee is particularly nasty for hypercasual games, where a very realistic scenario has you paying for millions of installs, only to find your monetization lacking and you paying additional fees to the platform, of all things.
There are very real concerns with the Addendum and making signing only about Epic’s bona fides is reductive and wrong.
There have been 50,000+ complaints filed with various data protection authorities since G-Day (1), Google recently got a hefty fine for a non-conformant consent implementation (2) and a lot more are rolling in country by country as bureaucracy grinds (3).
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned pandoc by now. It’s a Swiss army knife that among other things makes slides from Markdown documents and lets you pick from a number of JS templates or Latex/Beamer. Converting Markdown to PDF slides is just a simple-ish oneliner away.
And terrific for a whole number of other use cases, too - including but not limited to Markdown <-> Word, Epub conversion, HTML conversion and endless others. I find myself turning to it all the time.
Web logs are not a punishable offence under the GDPR, if you have a legal basis for retaining those logs and reasonable retention and data minimisation policies. If those are in place and you've documented them, you have nothing to worry about.
Why? You have a legitimate interest (one of the six legal bases under the GDPR) to combat fraud and maintain information security. That's the primary reason you have those IPs in your logs in the first place.
If you're using those logs for analytics purposes, things get slightly murkier, but if you're just using IP addresses to enrich your log data with GeoIP, you should be fine. You might even be able to get away with more granular third-party databases, but the more detailed you get, the closer you get to profiling (which is not where you want to be, if you want to minimise your legal fees).
More to the point, I don't understand all this talk about web logs being illegal. If people have collected and processed personal data without thinking about the whys and wherefores, isn't it just a good thing this makes one think about what one is logging and what it's used for? Granted, IP addresses are far from sensitive (depending on your threat model), but I've seen things in technical logs that make me happy about reliable automated retention policies. Also, granted, it's a hassle - that's the price you pay for privacy.
I'd still be glad if nginx et al shipped with more GDPR-compatible defaults.
Microsoft actually lets you download install media for Windows 7 and Windows 8 these days. You just need the license key. I haven't tried that for OEM, though.
Having an hour less in the work week should be balanced against being productive for longer.