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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I pirate just the Unity bits, so they don't telemetrize?

[–] rockhandle@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Firewall your pirated games

[–] Nankeru@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was my thought as well, since they count installs and not use count of bought copies directly from a platform.

What if people create cracks for legit purchased games, e.g. on Steam, which only removes the Unity tracking part?

A simple Firewall rule which "fixes it" for all games installed on a machine might work as well?

I believe it might be similar or the same procedure for every game using Unity. We might see this popping up at some point.