Originally Posted by kkot
It doesn't matter if it was introduced with good intentions - that's what it inevitably leads to.
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Something is only as malicious as it is in its current state. Rewards programs are only exploitative if used in an exploitative manner. Generalizing them
all as such is hyperbolic.
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An Overwolf employee recently described the rewards programme as a 'carrot' and shared his dream of consolidation - on their platform, one would assume.
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If true, another reason the community should come together. Not to sound like I'm doubting your claim, but I would like to see a source on this.
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The information is readily available to the user at the source. I'm not really sure what you're suggesting here. I have a short description (where a short description can be obtained) and a button which leads directly to the add-on page. Would you want me to embed the add-on page in full? The UX is similar to performing a search on Google - there's a title, a link, and an extract or description from the page.
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Given that I haven't used your program, I wouldn't know that. I was simply going off what you said about giving users as little information as possible.
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In any case, having to log in to every host that AOMs might interface with would be (a) very tedious and (b) unwelcome from the AOM's perspective.
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That's a fair point.
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Handling user data is I think something all of us would want to avoid because of the security (and legal) implications and the concomitant maintenance cost.
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Also a fair point.
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I'm not ranting about capitalists. I'm critical of the negative connotations attached to 'scraping' and broadly attribute them to capitalist thought.
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And yet you keep bringing it up. This isn't a political discussion, so keep that sort of crap out of it, please.