Does anyone know what happened to this add-on?
I've noticed iit's not installed on my PS and it's not on the Bethesda mod's page.

Not sure if that Market Tracker addon was involved itsself but at least the library LibText was blacklisting some players so their guild listings would not show to those users who are using the LibText on console (and there were several addons using that lib as mandatory depedency!).

Even if this addon comes back, with same or different name, I would not touch it.
1st reason: I could not trust such ppl anymore
2nd reason: I would not support such ppl by any means
At least f the same author will maintain it! If it changes to someone else, who knows what it will be then.

The author also just left the chat, once he was accused with theft of code (inlcuing my library LibZone) without permission, and that malicious LibText blacklist thing. No comment at all, no excuse, nothing.
Wanted to ask him on his discord and he just banned me there (or at least I cannot join the server anymore).

Speaks for him/her/*self imho.
Edit: Just got new information, which improves my decision to not touch that addon anymore. You can read yourself :-(
https://old.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/1ohwcu4/attentionconsole_addons_containing_malicious/nm6l8r4/

I'd focus on other nice addons.

I'm a guild officer in TSC and have been around long enough to remember when we where looking to get a Mobile app coded. No one in the guild at the time was a coder, and we pulled the maker of the addon from the player base in good faith. He was given access to SavageTSC's hand collected data (the only way to collect it at the time) from participating guilds, and made his own play store/apple store app and gave Savage 0 credit or even a part of the profits (since he charges for the app).

Savage filed a DCMA takedown notice, and in turn got a counter claim filed by the maker of the addon, and in that the maker of the addon got Savages Personal info, address, etc. as is part of the DCMA takedown notice procedures.

The maker of the addon then harassed her IRL because of it. He mailed her a letter as some creepy stalker.

In his counter claim, he also tried to take credit for UESP images hosted on their website and hyperlinked from their site.

He cost Savage thousands of dollars in bandwidth fees on her website searches (before add ons) data crawling the site for his data to use in his App and Addon. The stress for Savage has been off the charts. She has feared for her family, all while still providing info for her app, and data collecting for the community at large for both consoles, despite all the harassment the maker of the addon has done to her.

Recently in the last month. guild sales for TSC have tanked. Like super bad., Nothing is moving. Our usual spot in vivec city had to be given up due to the drop in sales. We're talking millions lost in guild taxes, and even more for all her members.

My ingame name is one of those on the blacklist. I have always been a critic of the maker of the addon since he screwed over Savage, the guild, and the community as a whole. Looking back, some people i tried to whisper, never got them. and now I know why.

Market Tracker had 5x the downloads of TSC pricing app. so that has greatly impacted my personal sales in game, and cost me to miss some fundraising deadlines for my own personal guild on Xbox.

So many people have been affected by this. And a lot of top dollar movers and shakers in the trading community in Xbox NA. From the blacklisted Members, to the people using the addon. Some of the largest traders are in TSC, to help with data collection with their own guilds (often being guild masters of giant multiple guilds to just hold their members.)

I'm glad his app is gone. Now we can get back to focusing on what really matters. Helping the console community as a guild, and me as an officer. telling our truth we've kept quite till now to avoid unnecessary drama within the community.

Yours in service,
~MissKonstanz
TSC Guild Officer and Chaos Gremlin

I see that this addon has reappeared under a different author's name.

Different autho taking up the reignsr? Or same person, just a new name?

DenverRalphy wrote: »

I see that this addon has reappeared under a different author's name.

Different autho taking up the reignsr? Or same person, just a new name?

Unknown. The claim, of course, is that it's a different person.

No, in my honest opinion it is not!
And even if the license says you can use the code, you should not totally copy it and then rename LibQRCode to some DataExtractor variable and silently include that into your addon.

I do not even see the reason behind that: Why not simply adding the LibQRCode as dependency so it automatically installs with the addon, and then you can use that lib and automatically benefit if any error fix of that lib is done by someone else.
Instead he copies the total code, renames it, changes a few lines for whatever not understandable reason.

Well the lib is included with it's licensing text but it is nowhere mentioned at the addon description that this was done, any why.
You cannot really do anything malicious with it as it only generates a QRcode and then you can scan that with a smartphone e.g. But either way, providing proper credit at the addon description is a must-have if you incldue 99% of other developers code! Fail-again

Update here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/684942/add-on-removal-from-malicious-user

The re-uploaded versions have also been removed at roughly the same time as the post.

allochthons wrote: »

I reported the re-uploaded versions on bethesda.net, but then read that they didn't contain any malicious code over on ESOUI, and felt pretty bad about reporting. And today, there was someone in one of my trading guilds celebrating the return of this add-on.

I'm glad it's gone again. Even if it's safe, I don't trust it, and the idea that malicious code could be added later definitely occurred to me. Especially since we didn't know if the new uploader was just the old one with a new account.

I AM sad that the add-ons we have now are all either PC or XBox prices, since I'm PS, and some of the prices are dramatically different. And I'm noticing people just going blindly with what the add-on says, instead of doing price checking of their own. Oh, well. So it goes on the guild traders. If we ever get cross-play (which I don't actually want, but am happy to be proven wrong), the economies will merge anyway.

It's always been just Xbox prices. Afaik, market tracker used Xbox prices as well. They just weren't upfront about it.

allochthons wrote: »

Dolgubon wrote: »

It's always been just Xbox prices. Afaik, market tracker used Xbox prices as well. They just weren't upfront about it.

Hmm. Okay. I thought that was true, but the person in my large trading guild today who was excited this add-on was back was saying it was specifically PS prices. It's good to know that's incorrect.
Thanks.

I've been fighting that battle on PSNA non-stop since addons became available on console. I don't know the exact status of the Xbox servers economies, but it's vastly different. New items that used to retain value with a gradual falloff over the course of a month or two, now bottom out within 2 weeks. And "always in-demand" items are now consistentlly higher, despite the over abundant stockpiles of supply.

While I'm relatively confident I know why the prices are affected in such a manner, that's outside the scope of this thread so I digress. But I do so wish that trader pricing adddons had been sequestered to the servers from whence the data they're based on was sourced
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