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Or... they don't have the ability in the software
This ability has been demonstrated by the third party chrome extension pokerstats.io which GP had disabled.
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Or... they understand my point from above that anonymous data isn't anonymous.
I don't know the extent to what you mean about this. If you mean people could pool together their HH files and create a master database to determine average stats based on the player pool, I guess that's a way but this data is very convoluted and people using it won't have a bigger advantage than those who are paying attention to actual player names and adjusting their play to their specific opponents. It's not an advantage over playing good poker.
If you mean something else, you'll have to explain or link me to where it's explained because I'm not a statistics expert or computer scientist.
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Or... they don't need to spend resources on making features only a few percent of their users want
People just don't realize how much power GP has over their accounts (which is why I'm trying to get the point out there so that people understand). The average rec player doesn't generally keep accounting records of their gambling history (my assumption). I think if it were explained to the average player why this policy is bad that almost everybody would agree it should be changed. As I pointed out in my original post, I think you seemed to completely agree with me that not allowing players access to their own records just seems sketchy. What legitimate company practices this? I've been gambling for almost 15 years and I've never seen a company have this policy. I'm no lawyer but in a court of law I could easily imagine this being considered criminal.
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Or... they are busy fixing other bugs
Or... they don't care at all
But they did care enough to go out of their way to disable the pokerstats.io program to keep players from downloading their own hand histories.
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If you really could only come up with those two options you posted.... perhaps your opinions are a bit over biased.
Look, I'm not accusing GP of anything. AFAIK my account balance is exactly where it's supposed to be and they haven't yet appeared to do anything nefarious.
My point is to bring up that this policy leaves the door open for them to do just that very easily in the future. Or to just accidentally screw up someone's account balance and that person would have no means to stake a claim to their own funds.
Additionally, there have been many poker sites which were originally safe places to play which for whatever reason, bad management, lack of funding, greed; eventually they decided to turn corrupt and screw over the players. This has happened so many times in online poker that I can't even name them all. Absolute and FTP are the first ones that come to mind, but I believe it's happened to a number of non-US facing sites also.