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by StavrosK 4469 days ago
> Since this is open source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if you would leave it in.

It's easy to remove, and they only track which apps use it to gauge how popular it is. Hardly evil.

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I'm not implying it is evil. I just imagined what would the world look like if everyone was doing that.
Oh sorry, I guess I read your comment before reading what the tracking is about and thought they tracked all usage (i.e. user actions, in-game).
What did you imagine?
Data. Data everywhere.