it's not much, but it's honest work.
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giving more details about your hardware to Valve profit from you even more
For real. As privacy-oriented as most people on Lemmy seem to be, a good chunk of them would still freely give any of that info in a heartbeat if it would make Gaben happy or make Linux more commercialized.
The fact we are given a choice is a big thing for me. I hate when my info is just pulled from me without my agency. But I am happy to share info with open source project to help them improve. Also valve being a private company they can just build software as their main goal vs just making the line go up by any means possible like a public company.
Because they don't already have all this info and more about me?
If you run any proprietary software connected to the internet then it can send this info to whomever. If you use a regular web browser with Javascript enabled then a lot of this info can also be obtained by whatever website you're visiting.