Stephen230
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Maybe ignorance is bliss mate. I’ve been using Tapatalk for maybe 10 years and have no idea about how they use data and all that business.Although I'm aware of Tapatalk, I've never personally used it as I'd seen enough negativity about it online. Security & privacy concerns especially have dogged it with apparently not a fuck given by the owners.
Is there any difference in look to the website, or at least the Webview version?
Add Bluemoon as an app
Posted this in another thread, but thought it was probably worth a sticky too for anyone not familiar with how to do this. On Android (using Chrome): Open the Chrome browser and go to the website of the PWA you want to install. Tap the three-dot menu (overflow menu) in the top right corner...forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk
Although this is from 2019 it seems to be in agreement with all other forums that have discontinued it (and there's lots).
FYI - Tapatalk to be phased out on 500Eboard during April, 2019 | Announcements and Admin
All, I have heard increasing reports over the past couple of years about issues with Tapatalk -- particularly in terms of honoring and respecting user privacy, and mis-using customer data. Also unfriendly tactics like using their app to track users and actually download and make copies of...www.500eboard.co
"I have heard increasing reports over the past couple of years about issues with Tapatalk -- particularly in terms of honoring and respecting user privacy, and mis-using customer data. Also unfriendly tactics like using their app to track users and actually download and make copies of subscribing forums on their own servers. They also default to uploading images directly from your phone/mobile device to their servers for posting onto this site, and by doing that they retain rights to those images. Effectively, over the past few years, Tapatalk has been gradually inserting itself more and more in the middle between their app users and the forums they are members of. The goal of all this is to get more and more customer data, and monetize it for themselves - and their own profits.
There have also been numerous, and several significant security breaches of Tapatalk code. In a number of instances, Tapatalk has not bothered to inform their users -- let alone forum owners -- about the breached code and security issues introduced. This has placed forums using their code in jeopardy of hackers, spammers, and false accounts. All of this is very documented. They have even changed code (to patch security issues) and not even changed the version of the new/patched code, meaning that forum owners or users who had downloaded older, insecure versions of their software had no idea that a newer version existed and that they should download it to close the security loop-holes.
NUMEROUS forums around the world have shut down their Tapatalk interfaces and have unsubscribed themselves from Tapatalk's network of forums. Many of them have used their conversions from older, less browser- and mobile-device friendly software like vBulletin, phpBB, Simple Machines Forum, ipBB, and others, to XenForo. XenForo is expressly designed for mobile devices, and displays very well on a wide variety of devices, form factors, and browsers.
After many weeks and months of research, and some middling and less-than-satisfactory experiences over the past year of my own with Tapatalk, I have decided to remove Tapatalk from its interface with this forum. After this point, forum members will need to use regular mobile or desktop or tablet browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) with the regular web version of this forum."
All I know is how it looks. And the forums on Tapatalk are very neat and compact and easy to use. Whereas the website I’m on here now is harder to navigate, full of adverts and to be honest, probably more hassle than it’s going to be worth bothering with most of the time.