Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

• Forester@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  News flash running to servers isn’t free.

  Yes they are tracking us. That’s how they pay to keep the servers running.

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  • malwieder@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re paying they’re also tracking you.

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But somehow eg. rdr2mods.com is free, and without accoung. Oh wonder.

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    • psychadlligoat@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mods for one game vs basically every game

      I could probably host the entirety of the mods on that site on my homelab, Nexus is exponentially larger and more complex

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      • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mods for one game vs basically every game

        As it should be. Or are we pretending that centralization is suddenly good now?

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cool hope they do a decent job moderating the servers they run and limiting malware exposure. I also hope they’ve taken steps to prevent themselves being used as a host for malicious entities to distribute malware to third parties

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, like the sites of the 90s.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes I know.

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since we’re necrosing the thread

      The reason that they require an account is because if they did not require user side authentication then it would be trivial to upload obfuscated malware and then use Nexus as a host to distribute it. If someone uploads malware to a random S3 bucket or random VPS or random shared server and tries to use it as a malicious host, the owner and operator will notice a massive bandwidth spike Nexus won’t notice 30,000 downloads.

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We’re talking about for downloading not uploading.

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It also tracks what you’ve downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.

  It’s not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And to limit scrapers.

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