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- What's the forum shown in the screenshot?by efilife
- I just got a message from an Hacker: "You seriously just played London opening as white and King Indian defense as black for the last 3 months?"
Btw I hate that chess.com puts game reviews under their most expensive plan, I ain't paying so much for something I can get in lichess for free.
by Lucasoato - uh oh. If my ELO gets back to my friends I'm going to be very embarrassed.by m00x
- Worth noting this was reported back in August, it’s not newby dwroberts
- I just logged in to delete my chess.com account, got a message: "This account is closed, please log in with your e-Mail to reactivate". No word by them having been hacked.
- > The data had been pulled by abusing the platform’s find-friends feature
Sounds like the find-friends feature shouldn't allow access to the majority of that data unless the "friend" accepts, don't think the "scraper" got 7mil accepts just because they had access to emails... To me this is 100% a breach, even more so because its already happened once years ago to 700k, and they changed nothing to prevent it.
by sidrag22 - Lichess.org is an internet gem. No ads, no subs, incredible performance, low-toxicity, fully featured, free API, European.
Far superior to chess.com in all regards. If you're still on chess.com, make this your opportunity to switch. You won't regret it.
by specproc - > Every record has gam_audiences and audiences_member_of populated, Google Ad Manager audience segments, with values like coach-nudge experiment groups, trial eligibility, lapsed-user cohorts and rating-band targeting.
It sure seems like the evidence doesn't point to scraping to me.
by Shank