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TurboBill
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Does anyone have any idea why pokerstars allows Sharkescope to hold a player account on the site to facilitate Opting in or opting out of their datamined database given that to mine PokerStars is against their rules?
I tried to chech the system for opting out on the Sharkescope Site
and you are asked two things:
1. Your PokerStars ID
2. Your Email address - normally this will be the same as the one associated with your PokerStars account.
If you provide this information (I entered some nonsense) you are then shown a web page telling you to transfer 0.01c to the Sharescope Player ID on PokerStars.
To tell you this they don't need your ID or email address! So it seems they are poaching these as well as hand histories.- All with the support of PokerStars.
PokerStars seem to be confused as to whether this site is acceptable or not. I for one would not give them any personal details. It annoys me to see that they broadcast data from poached hand histories and PokerStars helps them in this way. If an ordinary player did this he would be banned.
I tried to chech the system for opting out on the Sharkescope Site
and you are asked two things:
1. Your PokerStars ID
2. Your Email address - normally this will be the same as the one associated with your PokerStars account.
If you provide this information (I entered some nonsense) you are then shown a web page telling you to transfer 0.01c to the Sharescope Player ID on PokerStars.
To tell you this they don't need your ID or email address! So it seems they are poaching these as well as hand histories.- All with the support of PokerStars.
PokerStars seem to be confused as to whether this site is acceptable or not. I for one would not give them any personal details. It annoys me to see that they broadcast data from poached hand histories and PokerStars helps them in this way. If an ordinary player did this he would be banned.