Quote from: TheQuin on March 16, 2021, 07:58:34 AM

They are not even people. They are email addresses, fingerprints and VPN IP addresses used by a bot. The information is in no way personal and might be useful to other services doing free giveaways to help them prevent theft and fraud by the same person.

I don't think this will hold up in court.

Quote from: TheQuin on March 16, 2021, 11:12:36 AM

As an aside, I do believe that anyone abusing the service forfeits the right to privacy. We plan to update our ToS soon and the draft our lawyers have written includes that provision. When it is introduced everyone using the service will have to explicitly accept that if they are caught cheating they can be publically identified by us.

I'm pretty sure this is illegal in at least all EU member states, and I'm pretty sure that's valid for websites that offer their services in EU countries.

Your ToS is not above the law (and even criminals have rights).

Quote from: TheQuin on Today at 02:29:56 AM

I'm not going to say exactly what we fingerprint but the chances of 2 accounts generating the same one are roughly 400000:1 so the chances of 36 accounts with the same referrer are next to zero.

I just checked FreeBitco.in:

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REGISTERED USERS
41,670,054

Given a 400000:1 chance, that leaves an average of 104 users for each "unique" fingerprint. Chances are some of them will use the same referrer too (although 36 indeed seems unlikely).

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I disagree about the email addresses. If someone signs up a load of email accounts for the purpose of pretending to be multiple people that don't exist that can't be personal information.

Interesting (cognitivelaw.co.uk:

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If you are able to identify an individual either directly or indirectly (even in a professional capacity), then GDPR will apply.

You might be able to link an email address to another account or person online, so chances are some of them fit the category "personal data".

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on March 16, 2021, 10:53:24 PM

Not to mention, almost all of TheQuin's reviews since October 2019 are for the abuse of of his service (real or perceived, I won't judge.) There seems to be a conflict of interest for someone on DT2.

I'm still curious why TheQuin didn't respond in Freebitco.in provably cheating:

Quote from: LoyceV on February 12, 2021, 10:07:55 AM

Quote from: LTU_btc on October 09, 2018, 08:23:59 PM

Interesting. It would be interesting to hear statement from wetsuit or TheQuin.

I find it interesting that for years they haven't responded here. I still believe the accusations are plausible.

Let me quote my post from years ago:

Quote from: LoyceV on December 08, 2018, 12:29:58 PM

I've often wondered if they're legit, based on the average cost per faucet claim:
1 number pays $200
2 numbers pay $20
4 numbers pay $2
8 numbers pay $0.20
100 numbers pay $0.02
9886 numbers pay $0.002

I've always wanted to know if they really pay $271.37 on average for 10000 rolls. And if so, why don't they just pay $0.027 for each roll? They'd have the highest paying faucet, while it would cost them the same amount in total.
Because they choose not to pay the average amount for each roll, but made it a jackpot system, cheating would be possible and largely go unnoticed. Especially if they only cheat once every few thousand rolls.

Based on the odds, I would expect one $200 winner for every 2 $20 winners.
I did a (manual) count on pages 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 on Big wins at FreeBitco.in:
I just won $20 at FreeBitco.in! 116 times
I just won $200 at FreeBitco.in! 2 times
I probably miscounted a bit, but let's round it down: winning $200 is 50 times less likely than winning $20, and that makes the difference 25 12.5 times larger than it should be.

There's no hard evidence, and I don't want to do 30,000+ faucet rolls myself to create circumstantial empirical evidence, but I sure as hell don't trust the site! The fact that this plausible accusation gets ignored makes me believe it even more.