Outgress.com

I was googling away this morning and stumbled across https://outgress.com/

From a quick glance, this site apparently allows a registered user to view any agents last actions, heat maps of play, normal times of play, likely candidates for longest held portals and other such information.

By the text, it states that the information is gathered from user submitted email damage reports, which doesn't work for my apparent oldest portals listed as I have been the only one ever to cap them. There was no damage report ever sent, thus no email ever generated.

I wouls juat like to know if NIA aware of this application/site and does it conform to the terms of service? @RedSoloCup @NIA_Henry

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  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    this site is run by ENL i think, so whoever is dumb to send in their private stuff there u share with opposite faction and its against TOS as said..

  • Thanks guys. I thought so.

  • I know you guys are going to freak out on me when I say this, but.... it’s actually not a ToS violation. It’s a form of crowd sourcing.

  • I wouldn't say I'm 100% sure on that. If it's crowdsourcing damage reports, then how can it list portals that I submitted, and i have been the only one to cap - ever. What it says it does (in crowdsourcing damage reports) and the information it actually contains appears to be in contradiction of each other.

    I'm requesting NIA to confirm @RedSoloCup @NianticBrian @NIA_Henry

  • You have owned these portals since their inception then?

  • Yes. I submitted them, and I have been to only one ever to have capped them. Remote sat phone portals.

  • Intresting. That does indeed seem to suggest there's more to it then attack e-mails indeed.

  • IMHO, it's *very* grey area. All it's doing is collecting portal under attack emails that you are already getting, and collating that data into more convenient information. With a team of agents on there, you could effectively monitor a very large area for agent activity.


    The voluntary nature of the data lends me to swing towards not a tos violation per say. But rather the the indexing of data is kind of a tos violation imho. With all things being equal, i'd err on the side of caution and say don't use it. Who knows how Niantic will feel about it.

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  • Some of the portals in question have never been linked to. Some have been linked but the links is still present. They have not been destroyed.

    It's indicating to me that there is more happening that just attack notification emails being uploaded.

  • Thanks for the info @VanJeffery . Trawling through AMAs can be a little time consuming. Cheers!

  • Thanks, @GallifreyanP -- appreciate the information.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    well i have heard different, but either way its against tos....

  • Just to add that I was duped into thinking it just used email data but once it had my Google account it got information not possible by email. Never link a Google account. I've now delinked, changed Google password and revoked anything outgress from my Google account.

    Oh and because it freaked me out I disabled email forwarding too.

    I only wanted to know which portals I hadn't visited.

    Beware!

  • ArtilectZedArtilectZed ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's 100% false. A lot of people in TBG suffered consequences from their actions.

  • Snyda1Snyda1 ✭✭✭

    This Thread is from 09/19 - now one year old...

    That should show you that either Nia doesn't care or is not able to take actions against it 🤷

  • jsylvisjsylvis ✭✭✭✭

    And yet, years later, you still can't grasp that a dump of people present in a slack channel - that they may have been invited to well after they stopped using a slack, or that they just muted and ignored - does not equate to a list of active users of a tool.

    Perhaps Niantic - understanding correlation does not imply causation - declined to act on questionable data except where proof of wrongdoing was present, much the same as they do with other infractions.

    Perhaps you're unaware or ignoring the threats, vandalism, and violence that impacted players on the receiving end of the witch hunt that slack dump kicked off.

    Any way around it, though you bring it up frequently, you're demonstrating a remarkable lack of understanding of the subject beyond the same old regurgitated ENL witch hunt talking points.

  • Or the leadership changed after this was posted and this hasn't before been put up in front of @NianticBrian .

    Simply put, Niantic should end the practice of sending emails out with company protected data in them, if they intend to protect the company data.

  • ArtilectZedArtilectZed ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just shutting down the email notifications seems like the best idea. Would also save Niantic money.

  • It's still a 'cost', as some people do use those instead of notifications, with some easy Gmail filters.

    But realistically, it's not a cost that isn't worth it.

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    Well, but there are more email notifications apart from portal attacks, no need to cut those down too.


    Since my previous comment has been deleted, I guess you must be right :D

  • ArtilectZedArtilectZed ✭✭✭✭✭

    I only suggest getting rid of the attack notification emails.

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