Tapatalk Sig Spam Pisses Me Off

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 15:43

Spoiler:

search.php?keywords=Tapatalk

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fohat · 21 May 2016, 16:35

If you weren't providing them with free advertising every time, they would have to raise your rate.

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 16:38

I've never installed their app. DT works fine in every browser I use. But I get what you're saying. They've sunk to spamming us and I don't like it one bit! Cheating up their Google juice at the expense of our nice clean forum…

In most forums, no one would notice. But they've become the first flashing neon sign here at DT.

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chzel · 21 May 2016, 16:42

It's really not an issue of Tapatalk. I use it all the time and you don't see any sig from me.
It's the users not bothering to change the default settings.

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 16:58

True. But as I always say: defaults matter! Most people never change them.

I want a regularly run server side regex to purge this shit. We shouldn't have to. But Tapatalk already crossed that line and right into douchebaggery.

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fohat · 21 May 2016, 17:06

This is a test of clumsy fingers on an Android Galaxy.

webwit · 21 May 2016, 17:07

Hmm, typical. Because we set Tapatalk Site Owner option "Post signature" to "disabled". Used to work, but I just logged in and now this option has the help text "This is a paid settings." and they are offering different paid plans. I took the opportunity to disable all their ads settings. I have a slight itch to ban their ass. If they want to leech on us they should pay us, not spam us for money.

scottc · 21 May 2016, 17:09

Wow, fuck them. I'm all for banning them.

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 17:10

Exactly. Where's our freaking cut? Our club yacht needs shiny new doorknobs again. (Sorry about that. Lesson learned…)

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Khers · 21 May 2016, 17:10

If you can't change the bloody defaults, you shouldn't be allowed to use the bloody app! Simple as that.

Those sigs are annoying as hell.

webwit · 21 May 2016, 17:15

Actually there is a cut. Although we never got paid because we never entered paypal details (which I did now). There should be about $30 coming from the last three years (if the monthly amounts didn't expire). Goldmine!

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 17:17

Hmm. Guess we're stuck with plastic doorknobs then. Ah well, beggars like us can't be choosers about such piffling things as the visual integrity of our own damn forum.

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seebart · 21 May 2016, 17:30

I quit Tapatalk altogether, just too shady in terms for privacy. I just use Opera mini from my phone now.

Sent from my desktop with an IBM AT whilst eating an icecream and feeling semi-bored.

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 17:35

Good on you. I never saw the point in using an app to do a web browser's work in the first place. But now I get it. Coin!

Wait, you're on an AT and eating icecream yet still feel semi bored? That's hardcore ADHD! Either of those things should be an assault on the senses.

Khers wrote: ↑If you can't change the bloody defaults, you shouldn't be allowed to use the bloody app! Simple as that.

The retired Rickroller in me imagines some retribution…

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seebart · 21 May 2016, 17:39

It does have it's functionally, no doubt. Strange how there are few alternative apps on Android that otherwise has a trillion other apps for every little instance of life that is totally whimsical.

Muirium wrote: ↑ Wait, you're on an AT and eating icecream yet still feel semi bored? That's hardcore ADHD! Either of those things should be an assault on the senses.

Seems I'm too jaded then. Shame on me! That's what DT did to me.

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 17:46

Sounds like venture capital to me.

So, what's it do that visiting and posting to DT with a browser can't match? Besides messing up attachments, messing up emojis, and advertising itself? Because that's all I've ever seen.

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seebart · 21 May 2016, 17:53

AFAIK there is nothing your average browser cannot do, but Tapatalk makes it slightly more comfortable in some instances. And the "less fuss" more brainless ticket goes a long long way these days...that's how success stories are made. Make it easy on the human ape tapping and wiping on the glass, don't make it difficult!

Muirium · 21 May 2016, 17:54

Huh?

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seebart · 21 May 2016, 17:59

The human is a lazy evolved ape IMO, counting myself in. Habits and congeniality are major traits.

Redmaus · 22 May 2016, 18:43

I am just lazy. I'll turn it off now

Muirium · 01 Jun 2016, 12:10

More discussion on this topic rumbling here:

off-topic-f10/rant-sites-that-want-to-t ... ml#p310796

I'd like to automate this. Either refuse posts with the ad, or perhaps auto cleanse it.

cookie · 08 Jun 2016, 11:33

Verry well, I've disabled the pesky Tapatalk signature, didn't even know that this is possible?!?!

Muirium · 08 Jun 2016, 11:57

That's the cunning evil they're up to. Hide it from you users, but spam all of us, even those like me who'll never use an app. They don't care. Their motive is to juice their Google ranking. Shitting all over thousands of forums? Sure thing, boss!!

We can nag individual users. But it's a naturally never ending battle. Until, of course, either Tapatalk cuts this shit or we cut Tapatalk.

cookie · 08 Jun 2016, 12:03

Which I totally second!

Muirium · 08 Jun 2016, 12:08

What? Banning Tapatalk from DT entirely? Thought you were against that.

cookie · 08 Jun 2016, 12:12

Uhh nope, that would actually be a bit too radical. But not publishing posts which contains Tapatalk signatures would be something I'd recommend.
You can uncheck a checkbox before sending a reply actually but I forget it very often, but now I've disabled this

Muirium · 08 Jun 2016, 12:48

Earlier this thread, Webwit said we could ban them outright. I've no idea if my idea — screening all posts server-side for Crapatalk sig spam — is technically feasible. I wanted to prompt him for an answer, but so far quiet duck.

Another thing I'd consider is a regex find and replace for all instances of the sig, to nuke them. Or perhaps the posts they're attached to…

Seriously though, Tapatalk doesn't give a fuck about DT. They won't care about our pissing and whining, or even if we nuke their app from our forum. There's plenty more fish in the sea for them. And now they have proved how much contempt they really hold all of us in, I expect they'll get rid of your option to turn off their sig sooner or later anyhow.

cookie · 08 Jun 2016, 13:42

It would be a pity because I kinda like Tapatalk for staying updated when on the run.

The best way to get rid of the signature would be if we scan the post before it's sent and then parse the last line, if it contains a match on a simple Tapatalk pattern just delete it, or even better. Deny the post with an proper error message.

I'd be glad offer my service to implement this feature

Muirium · 08 Jun 2016, 14:25

@Webwit: you've got a volunteer! I don't even know enough about how this stuff works to know the language Cookie would need to work in…

cookie · 08 Jun 2016, 14:44

DT is based on phpBB, how hard can this be?