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by TranquilMarmot 3737 days ago
Closest I could find to boondaburrah's claim was: http://www.defold.com/about-privacy/

"We provide data collection and statistics of your players, if you want it – In order to provide Player Analytics, we need to collect data on your Players such as how they play Games and what device they used. If you choose not to use Player Analytics, we won’t collect any data relating to Players (except for errors directly related to the Defold Engine). Please see our Privacy Policy for Players http://www.defold.com/about-player-privacy/ for more information about what Player data we collect and what we do with it."

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Interesting. There wasn't any way to turn it off when I last checked, but that was last year (during beta). Hopefully they'll allow you to get rid of it completely, but it still feels too much like my game would be tied up with King in some way, and I'd never want that.
Currently you have to explicitly turn analytics on, so it it opt-in.

(I work for Defold)

Doesn't mean it doesn't collect data server-side, now does it? And even if, there's still a blatant amount of scheming involved.
No, we collect no data about your users unless you use our analytics service. If you need analytics and does not want to use ours you can roll your own.

What kind of scheming do you believe we are up to? I'm asking because we really want to do the right thing and be open about Defold. Maybe you have questions we have failed to answer properly?