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[โ€“] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik the engine already phones home for telemetry, that's why they're able to count installs retroactively.

Only loosely, definitely not in the precise way they say they will do it. If they even could do that, it would be a massive privacy violation the likes EU would not be too keen on.