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I don't really see whats wrong or suspicious about getting the word out through social media and discussion sites... How else are they supposed to market on a shoe string budget? Though I do agree that it gets annoying after a while because it can quickly turn into spam on a forum, esp when you don't contribute to the forum other than to promote your work.
Personally I think we as users are pretty spoiled now, there are loads of really well made games and applications out there, so many that we don't even want to hear about it anymore. It takes a lot to impress these days. Those developers really need a big well-known blogger or news site to say positive things or else no one will take them seriously, even if they've made something pretty decent.
Doing it through social media and discussion sites is one thing, however, they were continuously creating threads about it back at the previous site. As soon as one thread would be saged to death, a new one would appear.
What really ground our gears, though, was that they were trying to market the browser as for "power users" and "secure", even though the tech-savvy users tend to be the ones smart enough to understand what a terrible idea using closed-source software is (nobody saw that fiasco with µTorrent coming except us, who saw it coming from years away.)
Obviously, this browser will grow in popularity, and continue to datamine its users until the devs do something particularly blatant, it makes an Ars Technica article that acts so surprised about the situation, and the devs shut down that project to come up with another vessel with which to deliver malware.
It's a terrible system that can be completely stopped by insisting on open-source software like tech competent people should. The fact that the devs "aren't going to hide the URL bar like other browsers probably might in a future update" holds no sway (or should hold none) with the actual techies.
The shilling is one thing, but thinking they can get away with pushing a closed-source browser to the techie crowd is a level of stupid that's not even funny.
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[–] Kramer 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't really see whats wrong or suspicious about getting the word out through social media and discussion sites... How else are they supposed to market on a shoe string budget? Though I do agree that it gets annoying after a while because it can quickly turn into spam on a forum, esp when you don't contribute to the forum other than to promote your work.
Personally I think we as users are pretty spoiled now, there are loads of really well made games and applications out there, so many that we don't even want to hear about it anymore. It takes a lot to impress these days. Those developers really need a big well-known blogger or news site to say positive things or else no one will take them seriously, even if they've made something pretty decent.
[–] AgentOrange ago
Doing it through social media and discussion sites is one thing, however, they were continuously creating threads about it back at the previous site. As soon as one thread would be saged to death, a new one would appear.
What really ground our gears, though, was that they were trying to market the browser as for "power users" and "secure", even though the tech-savvy users tend to be the ones smart enough to understand what a terrible idea using closed-source software is (nobody saw that fiasco with µTorrent coming except us, who saw it coming from years away.)
Obviously, this browser will grow in popularity, and continue to datamine its users until the devs do something particularly blatant, it makes an Ars Technica article that acts so surprised about the situation, and the devs shut down that project to come up with another vessel with which to deliver malware.
It's a terrible system that can be completely stopped by insisting on open-source software like tech competent people should. The fact that the devs "aren't going to hide the URL bar like other browsers probably might in a future update" holds no sway (or should hold none) with the actual techies.
The shilling is one thing, but thinking they can get away with pushing a closed-source browser to the techie crowd is a level of stupid that's not even funny.