Seriously, how many of you have discord? How many of you own a smartphone? How many of you run windows 10? How many of you have a facebook account? How many of you use youtube or google? How many of you own a PC made with hardware manufactured in the last 10 years? You're all already being spied on by many different groups and you choose this stupid video game thing to get mad over because why?
Because EGS is removing the option to choose your supplier. That point whatever game is a perfect example, a crowdfunded game that's now an EGS exclusive. They didn't make that game with their own money, they made it with fans money and then turned around, took money from Epic, and told their backers to get fucked. Add those practices with stealing data that you know is going directly to the Chinese government, and it's pretty clear why people are a bit bothered.
Discord - No disagreement, you should be divesting, but I'm guilty of having a throwaway for ours.
Smartphones - custom rom without GAPPS, disable GPS at the system level.
Win 10 - disable all telemetry and Cortana, freeze autoupdates by telling it your wired connection is
metered so you choose what it installs.
Facebook - if you have one, you deserve it. No disagreement there.
YT & Google - ok, but do you really only have one Google account? Do you not have multiples with completely different backgrounds and whatnot? Do you use your real one for anything other than when it's needed? I'll agree that divesting from Google's web of bullshit is the best plan though.
PC parts - I'll admit you've got me there and I have no fucking clue what to do about that.
I understand that everyone is trying to spy on me, but that doesn't mean I have to make it easy for them. Which installing the EGS does. In my eyes it's completely untrustworthy and a possible attack vector depending on where that data is going, so I'll pass. I don't need the games that bad, I'll just catch up on my backlog.