I'm too old for this shit. Why should anybody be interested in somebody's playtime, achievements and owned games??? And why, GOG, is it not possible to hide this information?

well if you somehow gain money make sure to buy more games :P

By the by, people unhappy with the change can vote here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
Please vote, as complaining here won't let them hear your voice as nicely as a big wishlist entry.

Except no, because it was already easy for anyone who wanted to harass you to do so. The only way GOG could help you is if they made the forums viewable only to people who are logged in, and even that wouldn't protect you from others GOG users.

What GOG did was implement something that lots of people have asked for, and that in the end shows data that either can't be used to hurt you in any way or just duplicates info that was already readily available anyway.

I do not mean to sound callous because I've been the victim of bullying and abuse in my life. But ironically that's precisely why I'm saying what I am: Because as a result of having to think about those concerns from a pragmatic angle, I am aware that the stuff that you're wringing your hands over can't actually hurt you any more than you can already be hurt, and conversely, that the privacy options you're asking for won't actually do much to help you other than being meaningless feel-good things.

And I know that isn't what some of you folks want to hear but that doesn't make it any less true. The privacy convo is one that should be had, but profiles like this are too superficial a level to be having it from. You have to dig a lot deeper and broader.

The real privacy issues are things that underpin the entire internet and that neither GOG or FB can solve or even make inroads on singlehandedly. There's reasons why people like political dissidents who genuinely have to hide have to spend practically 24/7 vigilance to do so and why utilities like TOR are so heavy-duty and hard to use properly: Because true privacy is just that hard nowadays, especially if you simultaneously still need the ability to communicate. It's likely not even solvable by technology alone since the web was designed from the word go for easy data sharing to begin with; it will almost certainly require major paradigm shifts in how people approach privacy towards each other.

Doing hysterical things like handwringing over people seeing what games you play or castigating GOG for implementing something that many people actively wanted, doesn't actually solve any of your real privacy issues; it just makes it that much harder to have serious convos about the matter.

If you get your facebook credentials stolen (because say, someone replicates the facebook login form and MITM's the site's form), they gain access to your facebook and everything else that has "login with facebook" enabled.

Otherwise, they only get the credentials for that one site, presuming you didn't use the same password for every site, which is essentially the same thing. Add in that your card details aren't saved and you've lost what? GOG wallet funds at most?

So yeah, it saves you a lot (and is a basic security principle to boot).
Sorry, I'm not GOG. I have principles and I stick to them.

You are behind the times. SteamSpy is no more...

In addition to the other suggestions people have about fine-tuning the settings, the "Visibility" setting also needs to be broken down into two separate options. I'm fine with GOG users finding me by user name, but not by email address.

Also, the Visibility setting itself is not well explained. The way it's written now, it's unclear whether we are making ourselves searchable only by GOG users, or by the entire internet.

You get jailed if you own too little games? Or too many? :)

Please turn all this stuff OFF by default and private. This is 2018 I dont want my private data given away thanks. And no "friends" and "public" does not count as off. By default it should be "just me" and "private". While I understand some people might get some value out of this feature I don't. I love GOG BECAUSE its not Steam. I want no DRM and I want privacy. That is your competitive advantage. I ask you stick to that not waste time and effort on "social" features. Thanks and good luck!

Finally a nice solid statement in the ocean of cryriver :) Let me hold on it too! :)

I know what it is and what it does. You think I'm conflating things but I'm not. You think I am griping about Facebook specifically.. but I'm not.

People using the same credentials (either by using the same email/password for different accounts or logging into a single service to authenticate, in this case, Facebook) is bad because it only takes one site to get attacked and they get access to everything using those credentials. Your claim that it is more secure to use the Facebook login is wrong.

Seeing as GOG itself has had a vulnerability that allowed forum users to execute javascript on other people's machines, this is a pretty valid concern..

EDIT: And just to be clear, it may not have been limited to the forum, that is just where it was discovered.

I'm a little shocked at the timing. They held off all this time, but then pull the trigger right after zuckturd's shit hits the fan. But it's hard to be pissed about it when MS is embedding ad servers into the games that used to be included in the OS that we pay hundreds of dollars for every few years.

You seem to think there's something wrong with wanting to buck the herd and get away from this kind of crap, but I think there's something wrong with *not* wanting to get away from it. Seriously wrong. And I'm not the slightest bit concerned about "not being taken seriously" by people who are constitutionally incapable of questioning authority, and why should I, because popularity dictates what's wrong and what's right? Really?

That's pitiful, my friend. Utterly and wholly pitiful. o.O

Let's say that a thief could be more interested in an account with 2000 games than an account with only 35-40 games. It's just hypothetical, but it's still private info. There's no need to be paranoid like other people in the thread, though.

This argument isn't going anywhere. The fact remains: It's not GOG's business to tell. It's my private data, and GOG is giving it away. I have no say in the matter after eight years on the platform. I understand well that you don't see it that way, but that is some sicko shit.

And you have no business to declare some of my data that GOG is giving away harmless and not worth whining over. Nothing that's given away is unimportant. It was the "harmless", everyday, unimportant private data that Cambridge Analytica mined, analysed, and abused from facebook.

The paradigm shift you're asking for? We've just missed the glaring opportunity by a mile because we're already too deep in this shit.

These paradigm shifts would only reverse shifts slowly but surely made during the last two decades. You should definitely not just make the enablers responsible, the fucking Zuckerbergs and the fucking Newells, the fucking Nadellas and the fucking Cooks, but also the people who consent to what they perceive as the inescapable standard, and indeed start asking for it.

The people who vocally do not consent are not "handwringing".