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And you could not opt out. You had to click agree in order to login. That's the biggest one.
It was later removed after the fact but there were other changes that sucked.
I had customer data as well as some personal stuff on a couple of servers. It was low hanging fruit so I just started self hosting. It's silly how much rights they suddenly wanted. Not worth the hassle, they just provide basic boxes to begin with.
They also would not let you login without accepting those new rights now were you able to opt out. So I just threw my infa on some local systems, deleted everything and then had to say yes to their TOS. Again silly and great way to lose business.
That only applies to posts on their forums. Not the content on your VPS
Nope. It's the content.
Incorrect. It applies only to the forums. It does not apply in any way, shape, or form to your VPS or the content on it. It’s one thing to be mistaken, but let’s not spread misinformation on purpose.
It appears after the controversy they removed the parts https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/after-overreaching-tos-angers-users-cloud-provider-vultr-backs-off/
But when I read the tos, it was pretty clear it was not limited.
You also had to agree without an opt out which was scammy. There are better providers out there.
I don’t think you read the TOS. I think you read the out of context snippet and assumed that it applied to your VPS. They removed that bit because it was confusing, not because it was not limited.
Being forced to agree to a TOS change without an opt out is scummy, but that’s not limited to Vultr. Companies are not out there with multiple versions of TOS based on what people agree to or not. At that point you’re better off not using a VPS.
Welp I'm an anonymous person on the Internet so you can believe what you want. I could say that my job is literally mass deploying servers (devops) but if you don't believe me that I said that I read it then I'm not sure what we can agree on.
Let's just stop while we are both ahead. It's a Thursday, good day for coffee yeah? Hope you have a good day.