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Seems someone had a closer look at the tickets ;-)

That is, closer than the person originally reviewing them. All gone now.

Maybe I reported them wrong? Unauthorizded uploads did not came to mind first, so I always assumed that it was a vehicel for malware. There is just so much really free stuff on itch and so many other sites that do host inofficial stuff, why bother putting it on itch in the first place , as it will be removed.

Only one in my collection  of 30   reported titles    now is   R-59565, I did not provide a link to the original work in the ticket.  But it was the same uploader as one of the others, but with a different account.

And of course my newest addition from today, R-69710.  A certain style is common among many of those uploads, almost like a fingerprint. Let's hope they keep at it, as it makes it easier to spot. 

But the newest addition is already two weeks up and has 7 ratings, good ones even. Seems like not everyone notices something fishy going on. And why should they. So many free or pay what you want games here.

But seriously, why bother with uploading on itch? In the way it is done. There are better ways that I do not want to discuss, but the way it is done as described in this thread, I cannot wrap my head around it, why they try to do it on itch. That is why I always assume, that it actually is malware, that fell through the detection. Not all malware can be detected, especially spyware.