BREAKING NEWS: TSR INSTALLS SPYWARE!
wes_h:
The subject matter on the original post was certainly correct, older versions of TSR Workshop installed a keyboard hook that caused alarms to go off. It no longer does that, nor does it even attempt to connect back to TSR unless you authorize it to. Whether this indicates that it is now just sneakier, or that complaints caused changes to be made to the program depends on your paranoia level.
I have never seen the issues with their site myself, but it has ads, and I have seen 3rd party cookie warnings from other sites with ads. Other complaints stem from fallout remaining from the nuclear winter after the war between TSR and PMBD went critical. All who remain are in Wooden Ships on the water, very free (and easy).
Captain Scarlet:
Quote from: Drakron on 2009 July 22, 19:25:45
That does not mean by itself that its spyware Sigmund , EA lancher and FUCKING STEAM do exactly the same thing ... of course STEAM is in fact spyware as it does record your activity and reports it back (Valve let that up slip when they started to talk about how long did people played HL and how many finished the game).
FAILshop likely just connects to the interwebs in order to throw those TSR ads that were reported (the Launcher does the same thing).
I got in contact with Gabe Newell, chairman of valve about this
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Steam does not harvest or store any information about the user aside from the password on your computer(if you click the "Remember me" box, and the game files.
I've personally used steam since it was released in 2003 and had no errors.
J. M. Pescado:
That is clearly a lie. It tracks your usage habits, for one thing. That's how it knows exactly how long and when you've been playing. Given that he has lied about this, it stands to reason that he also has lied about everything else.
Captain Scarlet:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 October 05, 18:16:53
That is clearly a lie. It tracks your usage habits, for one thing. That's how it knows exactly how long and when you've been playing. Given that he has lied about this, it stands to reason that he also has lied about everything else.
He said it stores no PERSONAL DATA.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on 2009 October 05, 18:28:15
He said it stores no PERSONAL DATA.
How is this not personal data? How about I tag you with a radio tag and monitor your every move. Is that personal data I'm tracking?
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