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Did Riot sell our Summoner Names to advertisers?

Packun Flower··6 votes·965 views

Everytime I log on i have about 50+ friend requests and their all bots advertising one thing or another. I seriously think the company sold a list (Or part of it) to advertising companies.

10 Comments

CraigLoses6 votes

I have two bots advertising to get me out of elo-hell. Ha! Jokes on you, I don't even play ranked.

Pørourf1 votes

Is one of them called brokenqqq? I added one named that so I could copy paste the message and make some adjustments to the text haha. But I really don't play ranked so I don't need the advertisers.

CraigLoses1 votes

one of them was like figeule? or something like that. Not sure what the other one is called.

Ice Weasel X3 votes

They don't have to sell Summoner Names. They have an API for 3rd party developers to call data from their servers. This is how sites that track stats give us information.

Also, every time you play a game or add friends, you are added to other people's suggestion lists for invitations. Ever hear of 6 Degrees of Separation? It's a similar situation. A few contacts and a few games, and you're suddenly visible to a large mass of people in-client that you don't know.

The Paulrus2 votes

Have the same problem. Not sure what the culprit is, but I wish riot would invesitgate and issue MAC/IP bans.

GaleWinUnleashed2 votes

It's not advertising at all, it's just spammers trying to steal information or sell you something.

bad arcade kitty2 votes

you dont need to sell a list when there are sites that grab the summoners' statistics for years

Wheatloaf1 votes

They don't need specific names when they can just have spam bots covering a few hundred or so sequentially generated names each second.

AbsoluteSadman1 votes

Did Riot sell our Summoner Names to advertisers?

fixed

AJStarhiker1 votes

sometimes I accept those 'friend' requests for the sole purpose of waiting for an ad so I can report them.

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