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Sunday, November 28, 1999

Q3A Data Harvesting -- 7:52 pm CST, Update by The Master

Well, there's been a major blowup post on LinuxQuake on Q3A harvesting video card and Q3A version info and sending it to id software as part of your authentication login to a Q3A game. Personally, I don't like the data harvesting, but the info is really NOT personal, and allows id to collect some market info on video cards and O/Ses. HOWEVER, they do allow you to turn it off. Do this at the Q3A console (pull down using the tilde ~):
seta cl_motd 0
BTW: LinuxQuake is being Slashdotted right now and is practically unvisitable. But you can get the whole story there if you're willing to wait.

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