These places shouldn't be punished and defamed like this because of financial issues. The downloads themselves are still free and should not be discouraged for collection because of a supposed malware scare. It's just not right. Linking to mugen content is the lifeblood of warehousing; take that away and you hurt our free trade. This isn't about trying to censor mugen content or cut off Mugen Archive's source of income to keep their servers up.
This is about protecting the MFFA userbase from major security risks. Had Mugen Archive simply placed regular ads on their site or used a much safer alternative like Google Adsense, we wouldn't have had to implement this policy in the first place. It's annoying but it's not a problem. It's like seeing an ad for shopping at wal-mart, except it's not on every page but just the download links you visit.
It's better than regular ads or google adsense in my opinion which is constantly on every page. Adfly is less painful imo.
You really wanna see under or over the MFFA banner a flash commercial for tires on every page :S Imagine how slow your visits will be to having to wait for that to load.
Whose deciding these things for everyone? Also back to my previous point, what aboput 4shared links and others. They are all potentially dangerous in that case as well. If you're gonna be fair, ban all these to. Jul 8, - 4Shared it's technically not a virus , but it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as rootkit capabilities to hook deep into the operating system, browser hijacking, and in general just interfering with the user experience. Every mugen downloader downloads at their own risk.
That's why anti-virus crap exists. We can't hide from ads and their viruses. They're damn everywhere. I think South park did a whole season about ads recently? I don't think MFG and MFFA intended to censor Mugen Archive but unfortunately there is a backlash to this kind of unintentional defaming for places like these that choose to use adfly and others.
But whatever, I'm moving on I guess. Yeah totally, you can bypass all this crap. I even saw adfly blocker and skipper add-ons for firefox. It's the same junk we've always been doing for all the other ones.
I've also used esnips until I couldn't find out how to download anymore from its confusing new format. I guess this link embargo won't really change anything. Meh, I guess it's no big deal either way.
A bunch of us will probably still download from there. While searching the Internet for Ruben's Final Destination, I managed to find a link to the stage section of his website, though the site went down a while ago so I needed to Wayback it I couldn't navigate his site using an archived version, which is why I needed the specific page. Turns out there was some kerfuffle in the past with Ruben using adf.
What's humorous is that my browsing history showed that I had apparently gone to the intended MediaFire link before being redirected, so naturally I went straight to that. So yeah, adf. But you can't expect people to do this just so they can download content.
Why put them at risk when you can link to the same file hosted on Dropbox, which is perfectly safe? Also just because an adfly bypass exists, you can't expect all users to install add-ons or take convoluted measures to bypass dangerous ads. There are always going to be a handful of users or visitors who aren't as keen or tech savvy as some of us here and exposing them to a possible security risk just because they didn't take necessary precautions or know about the risks involved with adfly is not only something that we can't risk, but also an unrealistic expectation placed on these users.
There's other problem apart of these ones RP: the new creators who actually host their chars there, instead of having their own website, they just upload at MA. My main problem is with Cesarsombra also known as Cesarshadow or just as Cesar , which he made a lot of Megaman characters, mostly from X series, which most of them are spriteswaps to recreate the majority of not-made-yet chars done until now.
I manage to reupload his MM Classic chars to one of the collections I made, but for the X section he made like the half of them. Got you covered, Basara. I've uploaded all Cesarshadow's stuff there into my Onedrive folder.
I'll try to re-upload the other MA links soon. Also I recently went to MFG thread and there is damning evidence of malware coming from adfly. Not sure if it's direct or indirect malware though, I think the admin of Mugen Archive was maybe making the point that adfly is indirectly responsible for that as his defense for adfly.
I'm not at all disturbed of that since I expect viruses from anything I download everywhere, again, i can't stress that enough, anywhere you download we're all taking a risk, no matter what the ads claim of as "safe ads". How do I put my thoughts correctly? The site's name makes it's aim fairly obvious: To act as a permanent mirror for MUGEN content that can't be found elsewhere either yet or anymore.
But the way it functions makes it one of the most arbitrary, pointless and anger-inducing things ever. Don't believe me? Here's an example albeit a poor one And now a few months later I You see what I mean? This isn't the only example of this that I experienced of course, and it kinda appears that people hate ARCHIVE so much they're eager to get their hands on the stuff it hosts and mirror them elsewhere where people can actually download them properly.
That may be just me though I wouldn't even be complaining about all this if I were to have a registered account there myself, but I attempted to register myself there for like EIGHT times I even made new e-mail addresses just to make sure and all the times I filled out everything it then said something like "this e-mail address is banned from this site, if you believe this was in mistake, contact the site administrator" So registering there doesn't seem to work for me I should consider making a new e-mail address on another site entirely just to get there, whether it's gonna work or not It's seemingly not that big of a deal, but I can't think of any other content hosting site that does this I'll jump in tomorrow when my laptop is fixed to clean up any potentially remaining links.
I'm pretty much dying right now so I'll catch you guys then. Alright, so I try to download something but I can't download because I'm not registered yet which apparently is now permanently the case in Archive. Alright, understandable. So I put all the important details in and try to register, and then it suddenly says "This e-mail was blacklisted, try another one" for no reason, since this was the first time I tried to register here ever.
Old links for Enscripture's stuff would have been salvageable 2 months ago when the Metroid stages were salvaged, but a wall of robots. If Plasmo-Bot is to be believed, that's all the Archive download links removed from the Database.
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