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From what I understand from what I’ve read in the past, adventuregamers receives a commission or some sort of support when people click links to sites like gog, then buy the games after following the links. I use Brave browser, and it’s been giving me an unsecure site warning when I’ve tried clicking links to gog on game pages recently. This didn’t used to happen. I want to support this site without compromising privacy or security.

I’ve just tried & I don’t get any warnings at all - I don’t know whether that’s good or bad but I do have quite a powerful antivirus installed so I would guess that it may be down to your browser ‘misinterpreting’ something?

When I click the link, the next page displays an exclamation point inside a triangle above the message:

“The connection to http://www.gog.com is not secure

You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS.”

Then, I have the option to continue to the site or go back. My browser claims this page is not secure, but when I continued, the gog page didn’t indicate that. I wonder if my browser is just misidentifying the link as potentially unsecure just because it has af.gog in the URL (despite being preceded by https). This didn’t used to happen, so I’m guessing a browser update caused it to be potentially oversensitive to false positives? I don’t know if all powerful antiviruses also cover privacy threats.

I don’t know for sure if it’s just my browser misidentifying a lack of security, or if the links on here have become less secure somehow, so I want to make sure it’s safe, especially considering entering payment information is involved.

I wasn’t really doubting the security of gog so much as concerned about the possibility of someone or something malicious gaining access to sensitive information (does gog’s security block anything from happening after navigating away from that “unsecure” page?). I don’t know how all these security/privacy threats work, or what’s possible. I’m guessing this was just my browser essentially giving a false alarm due to not knowing any better? If so, good to be assured it’s safe to proceed.

That’s peculiar, it seems that af link uses HTTP versus HTTPS URL’s, certainly not something I’ve configured so I’ve raised a ticket with them to ensure this gets updated (as I’m quite sure that’s not deliberate).

Do you still get this? Are there specific pages you get this from?

As for commission, correctly, we get a small commission (5%) on any sale generated on GOG, Humblebundle or Bitmap Books. Steam links we don’t get any commission for, but we do include those as they are the most relevant obviously.

For Itch.io we do have a tracking code with them and see sales, but there’s no affiliate program/commission as of yet.

Ultimately the main goal is to ensure you can find the game on relevant platforms, not commission, that’s more a nice added benefit if it happens to be at a store we get commission from.

As of a little bit ago, that supposedly unsecure page no longer even appears—clicking links takes me directly to gog. I’ve actually used gog the most by far (I’ve never really used steam). tbh I care more about supporting this site than certain rights-holders. Good to see the ticket apparently was noticed