The Epic Games Store is a Landfill for Crypto Shovelware
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Don’t think you even have to download the data harvester app until you want to install a game, pretty sure you can claim the free games through a web browser.

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Yup, I’ve got my reminder set and claim then from my phone every week

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Yup, that’s what I do. It takes maybe a minute on my phone, so it’s really not a real time investment. I’ve never installed EGS, I just claim stuff and go on with my day.

Edit: I’m also on Linux, so the one time I wanted to try a game from EGS, I used Heroic launcher. So if you’re on Linux, you don’t even need to download EGS to play games.

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