TSR Privacy Violation
Lerf:
When I got my account on TSR it was still part of Mgon, and free with ads. When they transferred to the new system my account went with it. And, as has been repeated, you can't delete any account with them and they don't winnow out unused ones. This is probably to keep their advertising accounts fooled into thinking they have more actual traffic than they have. "We have a million bazillion members!! Pay us monies!!"
MissQ:
I had a sub many years ago, but stopped when I discovered simsfilevault. Even if I wanted stuff from The Shit Repository, I would rather get it clean from the booty. Cwykes: do you know if they watermark your free lots?
Zazazu:
Quote from: cwykes on 2009 April 02, 07:20:40
Quote from: cascaneda on 2009 April 02, 00:37:43
I am just wondering : All of you have an account at TSR ?
Why ?
TSR hosts all my lots for me free of charge and people can find them to download. From a very narrow perspective, that works well for me; it's much less effort than running my own website and dealing with downloaders &/or hackers. They aren't charging me or anyone who downloads my lots. I downloaded a lot of stuff from TSR free when I played Sims1 and also when I only had base game for Sims2. I didn't feel guilty about wasting their bandwith; actually I didn't know what bandwidth was back then. So when I had some lots I quite liked, I put them there - seemed like a fair exchange. They're there forever now. I like the challenges and challenge wizard too. If I was starting over with my rather higher knowledge level, I still want someone else to host them.
I guess I'm one of those people who always sees grey instead of black and white. TSR provide a web hosting service and you could argue that they are charging for that as much as the downloads. The amount - well that's a different story.
btw I'm on holiday now for a couple of weeks
MTS2 does this as well, and you don't have to worry about your lots getting marked as subscriber only. You also don't get the bad taste in your mouth. As for the challenges...it's a good concept. They can be fun. Recently, I downloaded every challenge onto my test account and created a 'hood for all. I then realized that many of the lots were packaged with tombstones and with stray bits of data about those dead sims. The 'hood never made it to my main account, and I did a good cleaning of the test one just in case. I also don't trust their challenge wizard. Due to all the other instances of privacy violation they've been caught in, you never know just what data they are gathering.
Anyways, I have an account (which I can no longer access because they went back on their word) there, unpaid at this point, for the same reasons Marhis did. I no longer go there on a regular basis. Actually, it's probably been at least six months since I've gotten anything that originated at the site. My downloading overall is down just because I have so much stuff already. I really only check MTS2, 4ESF, Holy Simoly, and Mango Sims2 anymore.
LynnMar:
well, this Thomas person sounds like a slimy toad frog. >:(
Why don't somebody fire him or is he an owner of TSR? I am through with them because I don't want any spyware in my downloads.
morriganrant:
Quote from: LynnMar on 2009 April 02, 21:54:00
Why don't somebody fire him or is he an owner of TSR?
He is the owner, Thomas is the one who pulls all the shots.
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