While I was out this afternoon, I got logged out of Blizzard and was presented a popup with a Click Here button and some nonsense about updated T&C nobody ever reads or pays attention to. Like a moron, I just clicked on it. Red Flag Number One: it asked me for my password; I’m never asked for my password. Continuing along my “how stupid can you be?” path, I put my password in and hit enter. At this point, reason suddenly knew my name again and I thought “OH MY GOD!” I was somewhat assuaged when it asked for my Authenticator code (which never notifies me for some reason, even though I have it marked; I have to dig through five pages of apps to get to it. This is new.) but then I thought “If these hackers can interrupt my login, what’s to say they can’t hijack the Authenticator, too?”
Did T&C change this afternoon so that what I describe above appears reasonable and legitimate? Or should I plan to change all my info and submit tickets because characters, guilds, etc. disappear?
I had the same thing happen to me I woldnt panic just yet maybe a blue can shed some light in the morning.
I never had to enter my password at all. The moment I clicked onto the password field, the popup for accepting the new T&C appeared. I clicked Accept and it immediately logged me in. No authenticator needed either.
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Happened to me and I found this in the terms:
Personal information automatically collected:
Websites visited before and after you use a product or service.
I may be reading this entirely wrong, but it seems Blizzard is tracking every website we visit on a system that has one of their games installed on it. If so, for what purposes? I’m guess targeted ads but wonder what else they may be looking for.
This would be the only thing I can think of. Keeping track of referals to the website via ads or third party sites.
I have not had it pop up yet so have not read it. MVP Bluspacecow normally tracks the minute changes in the EULA and agreements. I expect they will at some point for this too.
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It directed me to this page:
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Would it allow them to see whether a particular player had visited an RMT website?
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Its a good possibilty they do track those websites at least im sure they do big brother is watching.
That’s not really something they would be likely to tell us. It’s not hard to imagine the shady things players get involved in, and how they want to be able to connect those things to outside sources.
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Most likely, and reading the whole of point 6, it is only related to sites with in ActiBlizz that pertain to the services they provide.
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Lest this part slide by - people do read those sorts of things. It is usually the people who don’t that comes here either crying or raging because they’ve been sent to time-out and cannot understand why. If you don’t choose to read it, that is on you.
Those terms are a binding contract. It is not someone’s interpretation of those terms and conditions. If you don’t read them, how do you know what you’re actually paying for with your subscription? How do you know what Blizzard is bringing to the table in their part of the deal? When the whole social contract deal forced people to acknowledge it before they could play the game, there were a whole lot of shocked Pikachu faces going on, and even more when Blizzard finally started holding people accountable for poor behavior (that they always should have been doing, but that is a whole different topic). Oh, the songs of the oppressed that started rising up about how they didn’t know such and such was really against the rules…when it has always been there in blue and white since the game began.
So yes. There are those people who do read these kinds of things, and those who don’t. It’s the ones who don’t who we usually end up seeing come through the doors of CS all in a cluster because they just think it’s a video game and there really aren’t contracts and agreements involved.
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*Wanders by on way to doing Dishes*
Oh hey folks. The Privacy policy got updated to include the postal address for ESRB as far as I can see. About the only change as far as I can see. I’m going to trek myself through comparing it to - http://web.archive.org/web/20221227121732/https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/a4380ee5-5c8d-4e3b-83b7-ea26d01a9918/blizzard-entertainment-online-privacy-policy to see what’s new.
EULA didn’t get updated at all - anything odd you guys see it is because your looking at the EULA for the first time and noticing things that seem off to you. Don’t be afraid of posting for clarification but just know that it’s not new.
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I had this pop on my screen yesterday after a random disconnect.
Thought this was the new social contract folks were talking about. I just clicked through so fast I face palmed afterwards, telling myself I should have read it.
Like this person 
I appreciate you taking the time to tell folks like me who cannot wrap their brain around occupational jargon!!
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Forgot about this folks.
It looks like they’ve done a lot of restructuring of this policy , possibly with the goal of forcing people to read it. Much of what was in the old one is in the new one barring some minor clarifications and in general increased CYA type statements.
Other parts of it fall into a “yeah duh you don’t say” for me. Like saying Blizzard doesn’t sell personal information or engage in profiling … seems a little obvious to me.
However I would recommend people go read it again to make yourself aware of exactly what’s in the policy. I’m afraid that if I do go into exactly what’s changed line by line people will just remember those changes and not the whole policy.
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