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At the end of this year TheOhioOutdoors will no longer support the use of Tapatalk to access the forum. While we understand this may be a change for some of our users we hope that you will understand the predicament that Tapatalk's practices have placed us in. We have worked diligently to provide a very mobile friendly and feature rich web version of TOO for your use. If you haven't given the mobile responsive website a try go ahead and give it a shot.
The reasons for this decision are as follows.
1. Tapatalk displays advertisements to our members that TOO has zero control over. Aka it spams our members.
2. Tapatalk does not allow forum owners to disable the spam signature "Posted from my ____ Using_Tapatalk."
3. Tapatalk forces app banners and popups to members who do not use their App. As a site owner, we do not have the ability to turn this off.
4. Tapatalk forces images uploaded in their app to tapatalks servers and not TOO. This means that when Tapatalk frees up space on their servers they delete your content on TOO. This leaves threads full of holes without the original pictures.
5. Tapatalk hijacks links from search results and automatically opens them in their app if you have it installed.
Some of these items are configurable providing we pay tapatalk a yearly or monthly ransom that is ever increasing. In the 9 years that we've allowed Tapatalk on TOO their business practices have become increasingly predatory towards site owners; to the point that the software is practically a ransomeware virus. They purposefully implement features that heavily promote their app and advertise unless we pay them an ever-increasing fee. Unfortunately, we've had enough.
Understanding that this is a big change, and to prevent the blatant app spam from tapatalk towards our non tapatalk members, we will be paying their ransom until December 31st of this year. At that time Tapatalk will be removed from availability. We understand that some of our members may not be thrilled with this decision, we ask that you please understand that we've allowed this to go on long enough and there doesn't seem to be an end to tapatalks malevolent behavior. Our number one goal at TOO is to provide you the best experience and most feature rich environment possible while you're here, unfortunately, Tapatalk due to it's business practices is vastly overstaying it's welcome.
Thank you.
The reasons for this decision are as follows.
1. Tapatalk displays advertisements to our members that TOO has zero control over. Aka it spams our members.
2. Tapatalk does not allow forum owners to disable the spam signature "Posted from my ____ Using_Tapatalk."
3. Tapatalk forces app banners and popups to members who do not use their App. As a site owner, we do not have the ability to turn this off.
4. Tapatalk forces images uploaded in their app to tapatalks servers and not TOO. This means that when Tapatalk frees up space on their servers they delete your content on TOO. This leaves threads full of holes without the original pictures.
5. Tapatalk hijacks links from search results and automatically opens them in their app if you have it installed.
Some of these items are configurable providing we pay tapatalk a yearly or monthly ransom that is ever increasing. In the 9 years that we've allowed Tapatalk on TOO their business practices have become increasingly predatory towards site owners; to the point that the software is practically a ransomeware virus. They purposefully implement features that heavily promote their app and advertise unless we pay them an ever-increasing fee. Unfortunately, we've had enough.
Understanding that this is a big change, and to prevent the blatant app spam from tapatalk towards our non tapatalk members, we will be paying their ransom until December 31st of this year. At that time Tapatalk will be removed from availability. We understand that some of our members may not be thrilled with this decision, we ask that you please understand that we've allowed this to go on long enough and there doesn't seem to be an end to tapatalks malevolent behavior. Our number one goal at TOO is to provide you the best experience and most feature rich environment possible while you're here, unfortunately, Tapatalk due to it's business practices is vastly overstaying it's welcome.
Thank you.
