Privacy Protector

[Oops19]

Privacy Protector

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Important

If you have a previous version installed please remove '_o19_/privacy_protector.ts4script' and '_o19_/Scripts/privacy_protector/*' before you install this version.
It should work now more reliable and in case it still has issues the mods will be scanned.
S4CL is no longer required, so you may use it without the need to install a 3rd party library.

Installation
Extract the zip file to 'The Sims 4', it will create two folders 'mod_documentation' and 'Mods' (which does likely already exist) with content.

This mod injects into many Python functions which are used by malware and trackers and blocks them.

If mods call very questionable methods to access the internet or start programs these will be blocked. This is compliant to the EA privacy TOS while it may interfere with or disrupt other mods. There should be no such mods in your Mods folder and if you find one you can be quite certain that it is not a False Positive as I tested many mods.
Authors who use trackers and/or spread malware may be able to explain why they violate the EA TOS.

This mod shows an orange message box if it blocked unusual behavior of other mods. That's it. In the log file (The Sims 4/mod_logs/Privacy-Protector.txt) is a full stack trace with the calling mod / method. If you get one popup you may really want to inspect the log file.
If you need help reading the stack trace post it here after removing all sensitive information, if any. Of course one should still see the stack trace, otherwise it may be hard to help.
 

The full description can be found on github.com/Oops19/TS4-PrivacyProtectorgithub.com
You may want to read it in case the scanner or the protector reports something.

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• Submitter
  Oops19
• Submitted
  05/21/2022
• Category
  Other
• Requires

 

[DarkAudit]

*Raises hand*

 

Someone needs to be that guy, so it might as well be me.

 

I've been away for a few months. Is the author of S4CL and their content still banned?

 

If so, what is the LL admin position on derivates of banned content?

 

Running this will most surely get you banned from Deaderpool's Discord if you happen to try to get support there. They cut no slack.

 

Just wanted to get those thoughts and questions out early.

[Oops19]

ColonolNutty is no longer banned here.
Running a mod of mine or S4CL will get you banned nowhere.

 

If Deaderpool respected the privacy of users they would not collect information about installed mods at all. Before uploading something to them one needs to review the data as they collect a lot of personal information.

[Drogu]

16 hours ago, Oops19 said:

ColonolNutty is no longer banned here.
Running a mod of mine or S4CL will get you banned nowhere.

 

If Deaderpool respected the privacy of users they would not collect information about installed mods at all. Before uploading something to them one needs to review the data as they collect a lot of personal information.

Why doesn't he come back? Also, I'm not aware of what went on/the drama.. so sorry if thats an ignorant question

[Alfredalfer]

27 minutes ago, Drogu said:

Why doesn't he come back? Also, I'm not aware of what went on/the drama.. so sorry if thats an ignorant question

 

The drama was last year around march or so pixelade found out there was pedo mods, I found out about the pedo mods through twitter as they were all collectively crying and suicide baiting when ea threatened to drop the ban hammer on it funniest shit I've seen since coivd started lol. Basically what happened was a third party extenison to ww and dd was created to enable actions between child and adult sims as well as kittens and puppies, the extenisions were not available on here and I am not sure which area of the net they were available on only that it existed and pixelade found out about it. The resulting inferno of a dumpster fire  was a massive amount of so called maps were crying and threatening suicide over the possibility of not being able to fuck kids in game, a few even went so far as attempting to dox people when some commenters told them to do a flip in response to suicide baiting.

 

Basically in a nutshell some modders hijacked both ww and dd to make virtual csam in the sims 4. I don't know exactly why he got banned but cn seems a bit shadey to me, whereas turbo driver immediately denounced his disapproval.  I believe the official reason was stealing code from ww, but it seems like a pretty dumb reason to me, there has been discord screen shots of him being okay with the fact that pedos were using his mod to make csam extensions. All I know it was a huge thing, and some one had to pay for it, and my personal opinion I don't think  cn is 100 percent innocent, because turbo driver immediately denounced these third party mods to his og mod.

 

as for why he's not coming back, he's been rather asshurt about the whole situation I saw a post in a passing about him mentioning how he was cyber bullied.

and omg slandered really funny shit. 

Edited May 22, 2022 by Alfredalfer

[Alfredalfer]

16 hours ago, Oops19 said:

ColonolNutty is no longer banned here.
Running a mod of mine or S4CL will get you banned nowhere.

 

If Deaderpool respected the privacy of users they would not collect information about installed mods at all. Before uploading something to them one needs to review the data as they collect a lot of personal information.

while I disagree with modders collecting info about simmers, 

I don't really see the point of hiding mod info, ea still has access to my shit every time I load the game, and unless if your doing something not nice than what is there to hide?

were on a sex mod forum, I don't care if deaderpool notices I like have 20 cock cas parts and an ass load of slutty clothes and animations for my sims, shit I will probably just find the biggest blackest cock mod I can find to download just to have in game so deaderpool can be subjected to it. shit when I get some time I'll make a fucking deader biggest cock mod ever XD

[Drogu]

3 hours ago, Alfredalfer said:

 

The drama was last year around march or so pixelade found out there was pedo mods, I found out about the pedo mods through twitter as they were all collectively crying and suicide baiting when ea threatened to drop the ban hammer on it funniest shit I've seen since coivd started lol. Basically what happened was a third party extenison to ww and dd was created to enable actions between child and adult sims as well as kittens and puppies, the extenisions were not available on here and I am not sure which area of the net they were available on only that it existed and pixelade found out about it. The resulting inferno of a dumpster fire  was a massive amount of so called maps were crying and threatening suicide over the possibility of not being able to fuck kids in game, a few even went so far as attempting to dox people when some commenters told them to do a flip in response to suicide baiting.

 

Basically in a nutshell some modders hijacked both ww and dd to make virtual csam in the sims 4. I don't know exactly why he got banned but cn seems a bit shadey to me, whereas turbo driver immediately denounced his disapproval.  I believe the official reason was stealing code from ww, but it seems like a pretty dumb reason to me, there has been discord screen shots of him being okay with the fact that pedos were using his mod to make csam extensions. All I know it was a huge thing, and some one had to pay for it, and my personal opinion I don't think  cn is 100 percent innocent, because turbo driver immediately denounced these third party mods to his og mod.

 

as for why he's not coming back, he's been rather asshurt about the whole situation I saw a post in a passing about him mentioning how he was cyber bullied.

and omg slandered really funny shit. 

 

Ohh alright I see, thanks for letting me know.

[Hellrazr141]

Does this also affects Better Exceptions ?

[JustHereForSims4Porn]

On 5/22/2022 at 10:59 PM, Alfredalfer said:

 

The drama was last year around march or so pixelade found out there was pedo mods, I found out about the pedo mods through twitter as they were all collectively crying and suicide baiting when ea threatened to drop the ban hammer on it funniest shit I've seen since coivd started lol. Basically what happened was a third party extenison to ww and dd was created to enable actions between child and adult sims as well as kittens and puppies, the extenisions were not available on here and I am not sure which area of the net they were available on only that it existed and pixelade found out about it. The resulting inferno of a dumpster fire  was a massive amount of so called maps were crying and threatening suicide over the possibility of not being able to fuck kids in game, a few even went so far as attempting to dox people when some commenters told them to do a flip in response to suicide baiting.

 

Basically in a nutshell some modders hijacked both ww and dd to make virtual csam in the sims 4. I don't know exactly why he got banned but cn seems a bit shadey to me, whereas turbo driver immediately denounced his disapproval.  I believe the official reason was stealing code from ww, but it seems like a pretty dumb reason to me, there has been discord screen shots of him being okay with the fact that pedos were using his mod to make csam extensions. All I know it was a huge thing, and some one had to pay for it, and my personal opinion I don't think  cn is 100 percent innocent, because turbo driver immediately denounced these third party mods to his og mod.

 

as for why he's not coming back, he's been rather asshurt about the whole situation I saw a post in a passing about him mentioning how he was cyber bullied.

and omg slandered really funny shit. 

Nice job skipping over how turbodriver updated his mod to check for anything by CN & break peoples games. Yeah malware isn't an important factor I guess, CN just bad.

Edited May 24, 2022 by JustHereForSims4Porn

[Alfredalfer]

5 hours ago, JustHereForSims4Porn said:

Nice job skipping over how turbodriver updated his mod to check for anything by CN & break peoples games. Yeah malware isn't an important factor I guess, CN just bad.

still cn seems like a shadey mfer, I'd break his mods too if I was turbo driver pedos belong in gulags, and the fact cn was okay with pedos hijacking his mods to make pedo mods kind of makes me think it was deserved. this my opionion cn bad. 

[JustHereForSims4Porn]

15 hours ago, Alfredalfer said:

still cn seems like a shadey mfer, I'd break his mods too if I was turbo driver pedos belong in gulags, and the fact cn was okay with pedos hijacking his mods to make pedo mods kind of makes me think it was deserved. this my opionion cn bad. 

Ok two things. You cannot stop someone from using your stuff to make whatever mods they want to since if people are determined enough to do so then they will. We saw this with skyrim sexlab & the oblivion equivalent. Secondly the sheer fact you think it's okay to try & break shit on someone else's computer that you infact do no own nor paid for is actually illegal. So feel free to go ahead & distribute malware but know that if someone does try to sue your ass over it that while the court case might be stupid as a whole they'll likely win since distributing malware is in fact a crime.

[Alfredalfer]

1 hour ago, JustHereForSims4Porn said:

Ok two things. You cannot stop someone from using your stuff to make whatever mods they want to since if people are determined enough to do so then they will. We saw this with skyrim sexlab & the oblivion equivalent. Secondly the sheer fact you think it's okay to try & break shit on someone else's computer that you infact do no own nor paid for is actually illegal. So feel free to go ahead & distribute malware but know that if someone does try to sue your ass over it that while the court case might be stupid as a whole they'll likely win since distributing malware is in fact a crime.

making your mod not work with another mod isn't malware, by your logic running an incompatible game on  os system that isn't compatible would be considered malware. your argument is stupid, sure I can't stop pedos from making mods for the pedo inclinations but I sure as hell can make the job the not easy for them. if turbo driver made his mods to break the game if dd is installed then that means the mods were made to be incompatible with each other, not a fucking virus. I don't feel bad if a pedo uses ww and dd and the game breaks because turbo driver made his mod incompatible with dd, incompatibility isn't the same as a making a virus, companies make products and services incompatible all time, look at fucking mac, they had for a long ass time a closed system of products and software that wouldn't be compatible with a majority of windows systems. 

 

Your argument is stupid and invalid, and if I created a sex mod for the sims 4 for damn sure I'd render it incompatible with dd and third party child fucking apps. By your own logic any mod that breaks the game due to incompability issues is malware and if it ever went to court I'd mention that I made incompatible for a specirfic mod because people were using it to make virtual csam. it would be laughably funny if anyone tried to sue over that and would probably get leos involved in the modders who make kiddie fucking mods, not to mention the fact I live in a state that has laws against beastility porn so that would be funny as hell too and bring bad pr to the zoo modders. 

[JustHereForSims4Porn]

23 hours ago, Alfredalfer said:

making your mod not work with another mod isn't malware, by your logic running an incompatible game on  os system that isn't compatible would be considered malware. your argument is stupid, sure I can't stop pedos from making mods for the pedo inclinations but I sure as hell can make the job the not easy for them. if turbo driver made his mods to break the game if dd is installed then that means the mods were made to be incompatible with each other, not a fucking virus. I don't feel bad if a pedo uses ww and dd and the game breaks because turbo driver made his mod incompatible with dd, incompatibility isn't the same as a making a virus, companies make products and services incompatible all time, look at fucking mac, they had for a long ass time a closed system of products and software that wouldn't be compatible with a majority of windows systems. 

 

Your argument is stupid and invalid, and if I created a sex mod for the sims 4 for damn sure I'd render it incompatible with dd and third party child fucking apps. By your own logic any mod that breaks the game due to incompability issues is malware and if it ever went to court I'd mention that I made incompatible for a specirfic mod because people were using it to make virtual csam. it would be laughably funny if anyone tried to sue over that and would probably get leos involved in the modders who make kiddie fucking mods, not to mention the fact I live in a state that has laws against beastility porn so that would be funny as hell too and bring bad pr to the zoo modders. 

That's not even remotely what I was saying. If you wanna make your mod stop functioning because it detects other mods you don't like that's one thing. What turbodriver did was make it his mod fuck up peoples games & fuck with other mods if it detected CN's stuff. Is reading comprehension not your strong suit or something? I fail to see how you did not understand what I wrote unless your purposefully chose to not understand.

[ughwhat]

Why isn't this a bigger deal? Like, this seems like something that should be pinned at the top of this forum? You should consider DM-ing a mod and ask them about it.

 

Anyway, thank you so much for making this. I wasn't even aware that malware could be spread with ts4script files, but it makes sense.

[Oops19]

21 hours ago, ughwhat said:

Why isn't this a bigger deal? Like, this seems like something that should be pinned at the top of this forum? You should consider DM-ing a mod and ask them about it.

 

Anyway, thank you so much for making this. I wasn't even aware that malware could be spread with ts4script files, but it makes sense.

My last experience with the moderators gave me a warning when I asked to remove a mod with a malware loader.
I see no point in reporting the same mod as a tracker to them. Actually I don't expect that they pin this thread or remove mods with trackers if I request it.

If more users complain about trackers in one or more script mods hosted here they may do something and enforce the author to remove the tracker.

[Oops19]

On 5/24/2022 at 9:14 AM, Hellrazr141 said:

Does this also affects Better Exceptions ?

I didn't test with BE and I recommend everyone to remove this mod as it may hide relevant parts of the stack trace.
Technically BE does not need to call any of the methods this mod blocks so it should work as before.

[Angeleou]

5 hours ago, Oops19 said:

I didn't test with BE and I recommend everyone to remove this mod as it may hide relevant parts of the stack trace.
Technically BE does not need to call any of the methods this mod blocks so it should work as before.

you have a list of all Mods with Malware somewhere?

[Oops19]

6 hours ago, Angeleou said:

you have a list of all Mods with Malware somewhere?

No, I posted about two mods which have been available here for around 6-12 hours.
I'm aware of a few mods with trackers. This mod detects it and I see little point to stick my finger through the eye right into the brain of the mod authors. That's up to every user who uses these mods.
I use DD and S4CL and other mods by ColonolNutty, these are all clean.

[Vombatos]

WickedWhimsMod doesn't get along well with this mod. 8 possible warns with the mod

[Oops19]

21 hours ago, Vombatos said:

WickedWhimsMod doesn't get along well with this mod. 8 possible warns with the mod

The author may have no idea how to write good code and/or may have unintentionally added a tracker to his mod.

[Gambit]

On 5/25/2022 at 12:31 AM, Alfredalfer said:

still cn seems like a shadey mfer, I'd break his mods too if I was turbo driver pedos belong in gulags, and the fact cn was okay with pedos hijacking his mods to make pedo mods kind of makes me think it was deserved. this my opionion cn bad. 

 

Opinion is like asshole, everybody as one. And most of time they are shitty.

 

Why he should care ? He cannot do a thing. Why put protection or tracker that will annoy 99% of user for 1% of bad guys ? And if those bad guys can hack his code to comply to their shit, they can neutralize the "protection" too. Python is far from the most secure language. And as an end note, not carring isn't supporting.

 

TD had a big issue as a Patron user, there were a money and reputation in jeorpardy. So yes, maybe, he freaked out. I can understand that, it's human.

 

But I don't agree with bad coding practice potentially sending unprotected data over internet on some database I don't know who manage it and for what purpose. So... no more WW for me.

 

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Thank you, for this mod Oops19.

 

I've just a question : Is it possible to make a python script to run as a command line who will look into ts4script file for network function (socket, http) or dangereous function like eval, exec, etc. and report it ? The most difficult part could the decompilation I imagine.

 

It can be usefull to check new mod before installing it. And as your mod can intercept selected functions, someone could make a script intercepting yours so ...

 

 

[Oops19]

9 hours ago, Gambit said:

Is it possible to make a python script to run as a command line

That's what the mod already includes, most of the documentation is on GitHub: https://github.com/Oops19/TS4-PrivacyProtector

Manual Scanning

To scan new mods add them to the Mods folder while the game is already running.

• 'privacy.scan' scans the mods for known issues. This is the command you may want to use.
• 'privacy.search foo' allows to scan for 'foo' within mods. To scan only for 'exec' you may use this command with 'privacy.search exec'. It is slightly faster than a full scan.

Output is written to the console and also logged. As it can be quite a lot of data please be patient.

[Hellrazr141]

On 5/28/2022 at 4:24 PM, Oops19 said:

I didn't test with BE and I recommend everyone to remove this mod as it may hide relevant parts of the stack trace.
Technically BE does not need to call any of the methods this mod blocks so it should work as before.

Thanks

[MrGrey]

The Original Post says need S4CL, but the download page itself says that's no longer needed. I didn't reinstall S4CL and ran this anyway.

 

Okay, now I have a big text file. Let's say I have no clue what I'm looking for in this text file. Any clues?

[Oops19]

14 hours ago, MrGrey said:

The Original Post says need S4CL, but the download page itself says that's no longer needed. I didn't reinstall S4CL and ran this anyway.

 

Okay, now I have a big text file. Let's say I have no clue what I'm looking for in this text file. Any clues?

Oh, I may need to remove S4CL from the docs, I included the needed methods to make it more easy to install.
Actually you should get an alert in the gameif something is found or blocked.


For each blocked call there will be a stack trace, usually the 2nd or 3rd line identifies the mod. This may not always be true so I didn't use it to automatically display mod names.
A stack trace itself does not lie, and I don't like to add some logic which may lie.


If you want to look at the log file after the exceptions '!! Found' marks possible issues. All other found issues should be really harmless, nerveless I log them all.
'All' includes the injections this mod adds to block the calls, so you should find this mod 30 times in the log fine.

PS: You may always post log messages here if you have a question about some, remove 'C:\users\youname\' in case it is visible in a stack trace.