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From: Therese Godefroy
Subject: www/proprietary proprietary-addictions.html pro...
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 06:53:29 -0500 (EST)

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/02/23 06:53:29

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-addictions.html proprietary.html 
        proprietary/workshop: mal.rec 

Log message:
        Addictive gambling apps (RT #1362789).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-addictions.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.85&r2=1.86
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.44&r2=1.45

Patches:
Index: proprietary-addictions.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-addictions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- proprietary-addictions.html 28 Jan 2019 23:30:45 -0000      1.3
+++ proprietary-addictions.html 23 Feb 2019 11:53:28 -0000      1.4
@@ -37,6 +37,24 @@
 <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-addictions"></div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201902220">
+    <p>On-line gambling services (and their nonfree
+    client programs) are <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/22/gambling-apps-more-dangerous-than-fobts-study-finds";>
+    designed to be addictive</a>, much like on-line games. They achieve 
+    this with various different malfunctionalities, often in combination.</p>
+
+    <p>Many of these malfunctionalities are implemented by the server and
+    the client program together. In some cases, there is no honest way that
+    the client program could counteract the nastiness&mdash;for instance,
+    when the server manipulates amounts won in order to get the user
+    addicted, the only way the client program could block that is to pretend
+    the win did not happen, and users would not want that modification.</p>
+
+    <p>However, modification of the client program could cover up some
+    addictive behaviors without losing the user anything.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201612290">
     <p>In the game Fruit Pop, the player buys boosts with coins to get
     a high score. The player gets coins at the end of each game, and can
@@ -111,7 +129,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/01/28 23:30:45 $
+$Date: 2019/02/23 11:53:28 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.85
retrieving revision 1.86
diff -u -b -r1.85 -r1.86
--- proprietary.html    22 Feb 2019 14:18:21 -0000      1.85
+++ proprietary.html    23 Feb 2019 11:53:28 -0000      1.86
@@ -146,6 +146,24 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201902220">
+    <p>On-line gambling services (and their nonfree
+    client programs) are <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/22/gambling-apps-more-dangerous-than-fobts-study-finds";>
+    designed to be addictive</a>, much like on-line games. They achieve 
+    this with various different malfunctionalities, often in combination.</p>
+
+    <p>Many of these malfunctionalities are implemented by the server and
+    the client program together. In some cases, there is no honest way that
+    the client program could counteract the nastiness&mdash;for instance,
+    when the server manipulates amounts won in order to get the user
+    addicted, the only way the client program could block that is to pretend
+    the win did not happen, and users would not want that modification.</p>
+
+    <p>However, modification of the client program could cover up some
+    addictive behaviors without losing the user anything.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201901070">
     <p>Vizio TVs <a
     
href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit-vizio-tv-bill-baxter-interview-vergecast-ces-2019";>
@@ -199,25 +217,6 @@
     
href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/";>
     recording all the users' actions</a> in interacting with the app.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201902010">
-    <p>An investigation of the 150 most popular
-    gratis VPN apps in Google Play found that <a
-    href="https://www.top10vpn.com/free-vpn-android-app-risk-index/";>
-    25% fail to protect their users’ privacy</a> due to DNS leaks. In
-    addition, 85% feature intrusive permissions or functions in their
-    source code&mdash;often used for invasive advertising&mdash;that could
-    potentially also be used to spy on users. Other technical flaws were
-    found as well.</p>
-
-    <p>Moreover, a previous investigation had found that <a
-    href="https://www.top10vpn.com/free-vpn-app-investigation/";>half of
-    the top 10 gratis VPN apps have lousy privacy policies</a>.</p>
-
-    <p>It is unfortunate that these articles talk about &ldquo;free
-    apps.&rdquo; These apps are gratis, but they are <em>not</em> <a
-    href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -278,7 +277,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/02/22 14:18:21 $
+$Date: 2019/02/23 11:53:28 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.44
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -b -r1.44 -r1.45
--- workshop/mal.rec    22 Feb 2019 14:18:21 -0000      1.44
+++ workshop/mal.rec    23 Feb 2019 11:53:28 -0000      1.45
@@ -25,6 +25,28 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2019-02-23
+Id: 201902220
+RT: 1362789
+PubDate: 2019-02-22
+Target: proprietary-addictions.html proprietary-addictions
+Keywords:
+Blurb: <p>On-line gambling services (and their nonfree
++   client programs) are <a
++   
href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/22/gambling-apps-more-dangerous-than-fobts-study-finds";>
++   designed to be addictive</a>, much like on-line games. They achieve 
++   this with various different malfunctionalities, often in combination.</p>
++
++   <p>Many of these malfunctionalities are implemented by the server and
++   the client program together. In some cases, there is no honest way that
++   the client program could counteract the nastiness&mdash;for instance,
++   when the server manipulates amounts won in order to get the user
++   addicted, the only way the client program could block that is to pretend
++   the win did not happen, and users would not want that modification.</p>
++
++   <p>However, modification of the client program could cover up some
++   addictive behaviors without losing the user anything.</p>
+
 Added: 2019-02-22
 Id: 201901070
 RT: www-discuss 2019-02-21 ("smart" TVs that spy)



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