discussion Why do people dislike F95?

[Game9393]

F95zone administration build a comprehensive digital dossier on every user. IP address, full browser fingerprint, Canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, TLS fingerprinting, AudioContext fingerprint, a list of installed fonts, exact screen resolution and color profile, time zone, system language, mouse behavior, keystroke patterns, and dozens of other hidden parameters. This goes beyond mere analytics. It is an industrial-grade identity tracking system capable of identifying a person even if they use a VPN or switch browsers. Why would an ordinary "anonymous" forum need such heavy-duty surveillance artillery?

That's scary

 

[Novn]

Why would an ordinary "anonymous" forum need such heavy-duty surveillance artillery?

Few extra coins for selling personal data maybe.

 

[LewisCarroll]

That's scary

I wouldn't worry much about it. About 60-70 percent of all sites these days analyze far more than that. You should feel better that they can't possibly save all of it. The vast majority of it is deleted after a few minutes to a few days. You're in far more danger of getting a virus/worm/etc from a game on this site or F95. Learn how to sandbox your games!

 

[Karamchad]

Power abusing mods.
Censorship.

Both belong to the same category of people.

 

[xXxLunaxXx]

Yes, I was shocked myself when I found out about it. This completely contradicts their public image as a safe, "anonymous" forum.

This is done for advertising and marketing purposes. The more they know about you, the better they can deliver tailored advertising. That’s nothing new, much websites us tracking; it’s standard practice. I prefer

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Few extra coins for selling personal data maybe.

exactly for that is tracking used...correct

I wouldn't worry much about it. About 60-70 percent of all sites these days analyze far more than that. You should feel better that they can't possibly save all of it. The vast majority of it is deleted after a few minutes to a few days. You're in far more danger of getting a virus/worm/etc from a game on this site or F95. Learn how to sandbox your games!

over 90% websites uses tracking for marketing and advertising...

Oh, but they can do exactly that; they can analyze and store everything.

Thats why tools like Google analytics exist...

 

[S7aard]

Is it the ads?

Because the mods are idiots who don't give a fuck about their rules, deleting posts or comments that don't break the rules or leaving shit up that does. When you're on F95, they might warn you for no goddamn reason or completely ignore you when you make a report on a game's status only to conveniently respond to your report when you make another one telling them off for being imbeciles

 

[xXxLunaxXx]

There are several threads in off-topic and all posts with that are all over General Discussions and Off-Topic.


There is no real reason for that. LC was founded because of a dislike for F.95. and to have a site for smols games that are banned over there.
F.95. deletes every mention of LC too, but for them it has something to do with their rules. It is not allowed to link to sites with banned material, so for them to delete it makes at least sense.

Well, regarding LC, they use the excuse that it’s disallowed due to banned content, yet there are so many other sites I can post that also feature banned games, and the F95 or ULMF mods don't even care when I share them. But with LC, ULMF actually went out of their way to add the site to their word filter back on June 27, 2026, and later they even went so far as to ban private messages containing links to it. The truth is, the F95 and ULMF admins hate that site, I mean, they *really* hate it. It’s not actually about the rules; they just use them...

 

[nezumitori]

F95zone administration build a comprehensive digital dossier on every user. IP address, full browser fingerprint, Canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, TLS fingerprinting, AudioContext fingerprint, a list of installed fonts, exact screen resolution and color profile, time zone, system language, mouse behavior, keystroke patterns, and dozens of other hidden parameters. This goes beyond mere analytics. It is an industrial-grade identity tracking system capable of identifying a person even if they use a VPN or switch browsers. Why would an ordinary "anonymous" forum need such heavy-duty surveillance artillery?

That's a very VERY specific list of information, pray tell where does this information come from sir? I'm curious how this is found out.

 

[One Shot]

I feel a lot of people there are quiet full of themselves, I don't appriciate most of their attitute

 

[Kool Kids Klub]

Problem is they are selective in how they enforce the (somewhat vague) rules and they tend to delete the negative reviews for certain games (those rules are so vague they can delete virtually anything.)

I hate them because they straight up banned me for simply pointing out how in a topic aka WMV how EVERYONE was bashing or joking about how it was abandoned or the dev made another lie about update coming out only for it to be abandoned. Suddenly no one or the mods/admins butt buddies are only allowed to talk about it. I simply pointed out how it was hypocrisy and even if it was abandoned plenty of people would still help others who have issues bugs/etc, one didn't cancel out the other. Instead they not only banned me, they IP banned me just for giving them a legit counter argument. No doubt they're discord mods of 10 year olds power tripping.

If they wanted to enforce it; it should of been on future games still on going not grandfathered ones that've been jokes for years.
Or idfk locking the topic instead of banning anyone with half a braincell. Which they've unironically done with other abandoned topics like Summer's Heat lol.. its like what?

As for reviews I've never really had any removed, maybe sometimes because they weren't "reviewy" enough for their elistist butts? Idk I feel on a degenerate piracy porn site trying to hardcore force dedicated paragraph on paragraph reviews is lol material. Tbf it was only 1-2 out of my 20ish?

Finally I never even insulted them when having this debate lol.. I didn't call them idiots or anything, just that it was the literal definition of hypocrisy. That was enough to be banned forever lmao. If I make an alt I'm alt banned instantly lol. Talk about petty af

 

[MattShizzle]

Oh now they even disallow complaining about development time - even for ones that each update takes a fucking YEAR or more. What a bunch of fucking cunts. And not the good kind, like the kind on a whore who charges a dime a fuck, smells like a can of tuna that sat open in a hot attic for a year and has crabs, yeast infections and every STD known to man.

 

[SashaAka]

I have found LC, because someone was complaining on F95 discord that he got a warning and thread removed on the forum for something related to using a Game Manager, because there was mention of "LC", and i got interested and started to looking what the abbreviation stood for

 

[MattShizzle]

I have found LC, because someone was complaining on F95 discord that he got a warning and thread removed on the forum for something related to using a Game Manager, because there was mention of "LC", and i got interested and started to looking what the abbreviation stood for

I found it because someone messaged me on a since banned account there the name in German. I took German so I knew what "Ecke" meant but "lewd" isn't a word they taught. But Google Translate.

 

[Ashra S]

They keep removing stuff. Some of the mods have to step over others to keep things.