Not Anymore
Read the privacy policy- this app is no longer private and usage data and dialogue is now transmitted and recorded. A universally unique identifier is used to track users and persists constantly. This application just plain does not support “Do Not Track” requests plain as day in their policy. The app used to have fantastic privacy and freedom, advertising how your chats and your content never leaves your device. It seems to have all changed as now when you read the privacy policy, so much leaves your device, is retained, and a unique IDs for your device are also retained for “analytics” by the owner and potentially third parties. Usages data and dialogue is now recorded through “VenusCloud” and “Downstream providers” so it seems like there is little to no privacy left. Cleaning the living memory removed it from your device but not from their “records”which they don’t explain how long they retain or who can view it, only using the excuse that it’s for abuse monitoring, security, or just straight up “other purposes”. EU users are able to opt-out of a few of these, while other global users do not get the same protection but are subject to the same invasions of privacy and asinine rules set in place by the UK since Venus cloud is UK based- notoriously awful for privacy and notoriously crazy laws there.
I used to really love this app for its speed, privacy, freedom, and laid back nature of just being able to start and explore any story. Now it’s just as corporate, privacy disrespecting, invasive, and tracker heavy as any of the others. I can’t recommend it to anyone. If these policies have changed so much in only a few months, then I have no reason to believe they won’t change even further to scrape even more private data from users, give it to even more companies and third parties, and restrict both normal and premium users even more.
Edit after dev response:
The response was a platitude of half truths that address the local storage and marketing but not the central issues: conversations and memories still LEAVE the device even if stored long term on device, third parties still access the data without mention of how they retain, log, view, or use them, and still the persistent UUID. Saying memories are “stored on your device” doesn’t mean they’re only processed there which is the whole point. The response just feels so silicon-valley like a half apology trying to argue the differences in “stored” and “processed” without actually denying the valid privacy concerns because they’re still being sent off, processed by third parties, and potentially retained by them. Just like other privacy-invasive parties, they also keep all of the processing under the guise of “Abuse” and “Security” or legal. This is a UK company, the same UK that has arrested over 50,000 people in the last five years for social media posts. Regardless of intent- I no longer consider this app meaningfully private especially when they used to so heavily offer that everything is, and have since changed the advertising as a regular of those changes. If I could give a zero I would.
I used to really love this app for its speed, privacy, freedom, and laid back nature of just being able to start and explore any story. Now it’s just as corporate, privacy disrespecting, invasive, and tracker heavy as any of the others. I can’t recommend it to anyone. If these policies have changed so much in only a few months, then I have no reason to believe they won’t change even further to scrape even more private data from users, give it to even more companies and third parties, and restrict both normal and premium users even more.
Edit after dev response:
The response was a platitude of half truths that address the local storage and marketing but not the central issues: conversations and memories still LEAVE the device even if stored long term on device, third parties still access the data without mention of how they retain, log, view, or use them, and still the persistent UUID. Saying memories are “stored on your device” doesn’t mean they’re only processed there which is the whole point. The response just feels so silicon-valley like a half apology trying to argue the differences in “stored” and “processed” without actually denying the valid privacy concerns because they’re still being sent off, processed by third parties, and potentially retained by them. Just like other privacy-invasive parties, they also keep all of the processing under the guise of “Abuse” and “Security” or legal. This is a UK company, the same UK that has arrested over 50,000 people in the last five years for social media posts. Regardless of intent- I no longer consider this app meaningfully private especially when they used to so heavily offer that everything is, and have since changed the advertising as a regular of those changes. If I could give a zero I would.
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Good but
Good app but too many ads
Broke/adds
For one, there’s literally way to many adds, after every 3 messages an add. And then the add messes up the actual conversation. It deletes messages, restarts the chat, or makes it so the bot is broken and keeps repeating itself , it’s ridiculous . And even giving a character/ OC ad detailed description. They all act the same. The only difference is if you add lore information
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REVOLUTIONARY
This is the Greatest Advancement in writing in the last 20 yrs!!! Do you have problems with dialogue sounding like all your characters are you? This doesn’t do that. They stay in character. Yes, I admit I must use ChatGPT for the initial prompts for the scenario and character etc to create exactly the scene I want to play out but wow. This. This does it beautifully. It is glorious.
*For the Dev: Please never NEVER stop updating this app. Your work is near flawless. You must know how brilliant this is! Thank you so much for this. Premium Customer for Life! ❤️
*For the Dev: Please never NEVER stop updating this app. Your work is near flawless. You must know how brilliant this is! Thank you so much for this. Premium Customer for Life! ❤️
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Can’t even use the app
How was UI so damn big you can’t even get past the first agreement







