movida posted at 5:10PM Mon, 02 December 2019 - #4372063

gate posted at 3:38PM Mon, 02 December 2019 - #4372054

If you read the Statements about Internet activation in Poser from Smith micro you would see that there is much more behind all this. They left officially the option that you choose your self if they can get information about your Habits and Hard software you use. I believe that this option has already been removed from Bondware as Poser needs to be connected. also there is no Offline activation as an option.The store gets integrated into the software.

Collecting Private information has to be stated clearly in the Info once you buy the software I recall that allot of Information Bondware is giving are miss leading and are very unprofessional. Actually you do not really get any Information like a Professional serious software distributor gives out . One Page will tell you that you can activate Offline the other say's you need Internet so how could the customer know.

" we will be collecting anonymous data help our team identify features in Poser that are frequently used. It also will give us a very basic snapshot of the hardware you are running on. That data will also tell us about crashes to help us improve Poser’s reliability."

WHAT?????????

Holy Smokinoly!

To Answer Rhia, with google and the others I automatically delete my cookies after a session and do everything to make sure after a search not much remains. I also use Duck duck go first as a general habit. I also browse in private mode. In theory the most they can get is one internet browsing session. If they go for an ip address, I think we have it on a rotating basis for what is seen from the outside. Recommended by a security expert a while ago. There are other things you can do when you set things up depending upon how much time you want to spend, but once running those privacy things are transparent to you.

But if you're using specific software like a drawing program that reports from your computer directly to the owner, especially if it collects data over time then when you access the net tells on you...yeah. yikes. That's different. I don't think I have anything on my machine that does anything like that to that extent. (((Shiver))).