Woke up this morning and found this lovely trying to dial out:
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THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT, LICENSE AGREEMENT OR LEGALLY BINDING
IN ANY WAY.
Hello, this is an open letter from Alex St. John, CEO of WildTangent
Inc. This file is for the benefit of folks out there who may have
missed the WildTangent privacy statement when they installed our
product, and later discovered that our Web Driver updates itself
automatically. If you are worried about what kind of information our
product is collecting and reporting to us, or delivering to your
computer, please check out the privacy statement on our web site at
www.wildtangent.com. We are not "big brother" or a Trojan horse, we
have the utmost respect for your privacy, we don't know who you are
unless you tell us, and our updater has essentially no impact on your
computers performance.
WildTangent is working very hard to pioneer game and multimedia
content delivery over the Internet, but there are two enormous
challenges associated with this problem that our updater resolves.
1) Support: DirectX drivers, which we depend on, are frequently
broken or unstable. Support problems associated with DirectX drivers
are typically 3-7% for most video game developers. Game developers
have large support staffs to deal with these issues but the web
developers using our technology will not have the same resources. In
order to make it practical to enable web developers to author leading
edge multimedia content and deliver it online WildTangent must try to
cope with the support problems associated with DirectX. Our updater
is part of a sophisticated support automation system that allows us
to detect driver problems and fix them automatically.. hopefully
before a user ever encounters them. We track system configuration
and driver information in an effort to detect problems and fix them
before our users ever encounter them in content.
2) Size: Multimedia applications are usually huge. The updater
allows us to deliver content users request in idle bandwidth rather
than forcing users to wait for a long download. We keep our driver
current with new technology using the updater to avoid asking users
to take a download hit every time they want to see WildTangent
content. We also stream content. If our servers know your system
configuration then they can tune the content they are delivering to
suit your bandwidth and multimedia capabilities. All of this makes
our multimedia content delivery much faster and more reliable.
Lastly we track information about how WildTangent content is used.
This allows us to bill publishers that are using our technology for
commercial applications. This billing mechanism also makes it
possible for us to make the technology available to a large community
of small content developers for free, while generating revenue from
the larger folks who use our technology to make money. We don't know
who you are, nor do we try to figure it out unless you want to tell
us.
We try very hard to make our technology as reliable, responsible and
unobtrusive on your machine as possible. An interesting side effect
of our effort to be unobtrusive is that some folks think that there
is something sneaky going on because we don't plaster our logo all
over the desktop or start menu. Our sincere intention here is to
avoid cluttering your desktop with stuff you shouldn't have to deal
with.
That said, the updater can be disabled at anytime from the
WildTangent control panel applet.
If you found this file and have any questions about its contents,
please email us at info@wildtangent.com. I hope this letter has
successfully addressed any concerns we may have raised, and I hope
you will continue to enjoy our content. If you are computer savvy,
then you may be interested in learning how to create WildTangent
content yourself. Our FREE SDK can be found in the developer section
of our web site at www.wildtangent.com.
Sincerely,
Alex St. John
President & CEO
WildTangent Inc.
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I didn't knowingly install their software either!
Man, this really psses me off!!!!!!!!
======================================================================
THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT, LICENSE AGREEMENT OR LEGALLY BINDING
IN ANY WAY.
Hello, this is an open letter from Alex St. John, CEO of WildTangent
Inc. This file is for the benefit of folks out there who may have
missed the WildTangent privacy statement when they installed our
product, and later discovered that our Web Driver updates itself
automatically. If you are worried about what kind of information our
product is collecting and reporting to us, or delivering to your
computer, please check out the privacy statement on our web site at
www.wildtangent.com. We are not "big brother" or a Trojan horse, we
have the utmost respect for your privacy, we don't know who you are
unless you tell us, and our updater has essentially no impact on your
computers performance.
WildTangent is working very hard to pioneer game and multimedia
content delivery over the Internet, but there are two enormous
challenges associated with this problem that our updater resolves.
1) Support: DirectX drivers, which we depend on, are frequently
broken or unstable. Support problems associated with DirectX drivers
are typically 3-7% for most video game developers. Game developers
have large support staffs to deal with these issues but the web
developers using our technology will not have the same resources. In
order to make it practical to enable web developers to author leading
edge multimedia content and deliver it online WildTangent must try to
cope with the support problems associated with DirectX. Our updater
is part of a sophisticated support automation system that allows us
to detect driver problems and fix them automatically.. hopefully
before a user ever encounters them. We track system configuration
and driver information in an effort to detect problems and fix them
before our users ever encounter them in content.
2) Size: Multimedia applications are usually huge. The updater
allows us to deliver content users request in idle bandwidth rather
than forcing users to wait for a long download. We keep our driver
current with new technology using the updater to avoid asking users
to take a download hit every time they want to see WildTangent
content. We also stream content. If our servers know your system
configuration then they can tune the content they are delivering to
suit your bandwidth and multimedia capabilities. All of this makes
our multimedia content delivery much faster and more reliable.
Lastly we track information about how WildTangent content is used.
This allows us to bill publishers that are using our technology for
commercial applications. This billing mechanism also makes it
possible for us to make the technology available to a large community
of small content developers for free, while generating revenue from
the larger folks who use our technology to make money. We don't know
who you are, nor do we try to figure it out unless you want to tell
us.
We try very hard to make our technology as reliable, responsible and
unobtrusive on your machine as possible. An interesting side effect
of our effort to be unobtrusive is that some folks think that there
is something sneaky going on because we don't plaster our logo all
over the desktop or start menu. Our sincere intention here is to
avoid cluttering your desktop with stuff you shouldn't have to deal
with.
That said, the updater can be disabled at anytime from the
WildTangent control panel applet.
If you found this file and have any questions about its contents,
please email us at info@wildtangent.com. I hope this letter has
successfully addressed any concerns we may have raised, and I hope
you will continue to enjoy our content. If you are computer savvy,
then you may be interested in learning how to create WildTangent
content yourself. Our FREE SDK can be found in the developer section
of our web site at www.wildtangent.com.
Sincerely,
Alex St. John
President & CEO
WildTangent Inc.
========================================================================
I didn't knowingly install their software either!
Man, this really psses me off!!!!!!!!
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