So what is the consensus here? Is Tapatalk more of a headache than a benefit for XF? I was considering adding it to my site but am worried it will just create more issues than those it solves...
Tapatalk keeps getting worse. When I removed it last year due to privacy & security violations it was already clear that it was not getting much better. They repeatedly sacrifice the website / webmaster interest for their own gain and try to push your members to their platform.
At this point anyone who is still using tapatalk should seriously contemplate the risks and benefits of having your entire site copied to their servers, providing access to your database, while their policy is clearly hostile to your interests.
Tapatalk is a mobile browsing app which allows people to browse parts of our site in a mobile friendly way. Since its competitor is no longer operating, Tapatalk has become the only App of its kind. It seems that they are taking advantage of this situation in a dangerous way.
Over the course of the last months, Tapatalk has become more and more intrusive and with disregard to member privacy.
Here are some of the changes:
These events have made clear that we would stop offering Tapatalk once the new site is online.
- TT started to divert users to login through their own login function instead of our login.
- TT showed advertising even though we opted out.
- Tapatalk did not alert us about a security vulnerability for months. This vulnerability could have allowed attackers to gain access to your phone/ credentials.
- The TT search function is now diluted with results from other websites.
- By default TT uploads images to TT instead of our server. We turned this off.
- TT keeps removing our usergroup permissions.
- TT keeps adding annoying popups to the site, which we keep removing.
- We discovered that TT seems to be using a copy of our content on their servers. They have not asked permission for this.
However, Tapatalk has now announced that they will start emailing our members regularly. There is no reason whatsoever for a mobile app to start emailing members. We did not give Tapatalk permission to make use of any of our member data and will take legal action against Tapatalk if they do anything of such kind.
In light of the above I am now removing Tapatalk from this site. I apologize to those who enjoy the functionality.
I strongly advise anyone to remove Tapatalk from their devices.
Sorry, not a big TAZ fan but you are more than welcome to cut and paste if you wantCould you post that to TAZ as well?
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