09-04-2003, 11:57 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,830
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I love how your today screen looks, but... all those third party apps you had to download, install, and hope to goodness it works. MY main concern is exactly that; ThirdParty. You can never trust them with their viruses, and other crap they load onto your pc and now, wait untill they do it to your ppc. They will tell you what you want to hear, "Oh, we don't have anything else in our programs and we dont sell your information, bla, bla, bla." I bet you even this site sells your information. Its a corrupt world out there. Its sad, I know.
But I want to wait until Microsoft does something like that with our PPCs. But thenagain, the crap I get from MS on my pc. Tsk. Im never going to be safe from this!!!
-Justin.
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09-05-2003, 12:17 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 267
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Originally Posted by Honda_Civic_Si
I bet you even this site sells your information.
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If they do, that's yet another reason to not subscribe...  |
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09-05-2003, 12:18 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 222
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Originally Posted by Honda_Civic_Si
all those third party apps you had to download, install, and hope to goodness it works. MY main concern is exactly that; ThirdParty. You can never trust them with their viruses, and other crap they load onto your pc and now, wait untill they do it to your ppc. They will tell you what you want to hear, "Oh, we don't have anything else in our programs and we dont sell your information, bla, bla, bla." I bet you even this site sells your information.
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I think you may be going a little overboard here :roll:
I have downloaded TONS of PPC third party apps, and have never had one give me a virus or install spyware/malware/etc. Just don't install shady, untested software that some random person promotes in a message board and you'll be fine. The worst that ever happens to me is some programs have sloppy uninstall programs and I have to remove things manually.
Oh, and I doubt PPC Thoughts sells our information. Especially since we don't really supply any (except for those occasional polls).
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09-05-2003, 12:21 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,830
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Exactly. You doubt, all I am saying is beware, and thats what I am doing. I am being beware of things. I am not laying down what I believe on you guys, you can think and do whatever you like. I was just sharing my point of view!
-Justin.
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09-05-2003, 12:44 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 445
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Originally Posted by Honda_Civic_Si
I bet you even this site sells your information. Its a corrupt world out there. Its sad, I know.
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Jason, Janak, Ed, and the rest of the team have pretty much the same feelings towards spam. I highly doubt they are selling any personal information to anyone. |
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09-05-2003, 01:18 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,231
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Originally Posted by Honda_Civic_Si
I bet you even this site sells your information. Its a corrupt world out there. Its sad, I know.
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Do a search before you start flinging accusations. 25 seconds with the search engine on this site yielded this thread, in which Jason says the following:
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I'm not planning on ever using the membership database for mailings (other than the newsletter), and I'm not going to sell it to another company, that's for sure!
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Pretty clear, don't you think? |
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09-05-2003, 01:22 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 267
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In addition, the Privact Policy link appears at the bottom of the front page. 
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Specific information such as name, email address, or other contact information will never be shared with sponsors.
...unimportant stuff in between...
Thoughts Media will never sell or share your e-mail address with any outside source without your permission.
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09-05-2003, 01:26 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,830
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Stop being so harsh, if you read what I had wrote, you would understand my point of view. I don't care what you guys think, and you don't have to care what I think. I am not discussing the point of whether this site sells our information. You are missing the point again! I am talking about third party software, viruses, and spyware. Selling the information part was a mere example!
And, like I also said, sites tell you what you WANT to hear, about how they DONT sell your information. You have no PROOF they abide by their own privacy policies or what not.
-Justin.
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09-05-2003, 01:26 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,329
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Originally Posted by easylife
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Originally Posted by Honda_Civic_Si
I bet you even this site sells your information.
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What is your beef with the site having a subscription service? You've made comments like this in more than one thread backed only with the basic flawed arguement that the web should be free. I have never seen anyone treated any differently because they are a subscriber or not. And everyone has access to the same content. |
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09-05-2003, 01:43 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 267
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
What is your beef with the site having a subscription service? You've made comments like this in more than one thread
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Yes, for a grand total of two threads - and both comments made today.
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
I have never seen anyone treated any differently because they are a subscriber or not.
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Certainly not because you subscribe, but even Jason treats subscribers differently (quote from here:
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Note to self: don't piss off subscribers, they're paying your bills.
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