Reneer

It sounds like you have some mods hidden by tags / NSFW content. Something there could be your issue.

The moment my mods are placed behind a hard paywall of any kind where I don't get a percentage is the moment I remove all my mods from Nexus Mods. But I would be overjoyed to be able to sell my mods, so take that as you will.

If someone has the necessary access to your computer to inject a DLL file (KeeFarce method) then no amount of security is going to help you. And, research hint, several of those issues raised by your links have been addressed by the KeePass team and the others (such as using hashcat) are based on 'simple passwords' versus what you should actually be using for the KeePass master password or are based on you making a major mistake (downloading a compromised version of KeePass from a shady website). And if something like hashcat can literally brute-force your KeePass master password in 12 minutes you are doing it wrong. My recommendation stands.

No one is 'practically forcing' you to pay to access anything on this site. You and every other non-premium member in this thread are still 100% fully capable of downloading every single mod hosted on this website for absolutely no charge. If clicking one extra button and waiting 5 seconds per mod is simply a bridge too far for you then no one is practically forcing you to stay.

I mean, I grabbed Lifetime Premium because I simply wanted to support Nexus Mods - I rarely download mods from here.

This. KeePass works great, is cross platform (Windows, Linux, Android, and likely Mac), and open source. There's pretty much zero reason not to use it, in my opinion.

The question I want to see answered is this: what would have made 'you' pay for Nexus Premium? In other words, what features or benefits could Premium have included that would have made it a worthwhile purchase?

MEGA: Limits you to a bandwidth of 1GB every 6 hours as a free user. If you exceed that limit, you have to wait until your 6 hour timer is up (source). Mediafire: Premium / paid users have a total amount of bandwidth per month. If they exceed that bandwidth, they (and other users downloading from them) will start being forced to view pages with ads on them while downloading (source). Free users see ads all the time. Reddit: You can only upload videos / images, not actual files. Also you are limited to video sizes of 1GB (source). Pinterest: Again, only videos and pictures, not actual files. Plus there are limits (source).

Have any examples of these other websites to share?

The answer is that bandwidth is expensive and so limiting the bandwidth of non-paying users is a strategy to ensure Nexus Mods doesn't go bankrupt having to pay exorbitant fees for all the users who aren't paying into the system.

Well, I for one won't miss your wonderful attitude. Have fun in your self-inflicted exile.

Those are some fancy rose-tinted glasses you have on there. Do they also play the sound of a 56k modem while you're waiting several minutes to download that awesome MP3 file from Napster?

And I bet those sites will run on pure hope and rainbows, right? No, no, wait... exposure! We'll pay them in exposure!

Maybe? Have you taken a look at the overview of their expenses at all? Nexus is clearly spending a lot of money on bandwidth.

All that effort and you didn't even try to estimate what Nexus has to pay for in taxes / expenses each year.

Gotta love all the slippery slope arguments in this thread.

I'm on mobile so I can't easily link the statistics right now, but approximately 20% of people over 18 in the UK use ad blockers (according to a study done back in 2016). Even if we assume that some percentage of that disable their ad blocker for Nexus, that is still a huge hit to their revenue model. Revenue for Nexus is going to continue to go down as more and more people switch to ad blockers and the Nexus is going to have to take measures to make sure the business remains profitable. So the Nexus has to keep spending the same amount of money for bandwidth because they have the same amount of users but are (likely) making 20%+ less in revenue.

If I'm not mistaken, Supporter ($2 level, once only) status doesn't seem to remove either the "Slow / Fast" popup or the "Please wait 5 seconds" bit. But as I've mentioned earlier, the "Please wait 5 seconds" page isn't meant as a nag, it is designed to keep people from scraping mods.

There are several examples I can think of right off the top of my head where someone was scraping mods from the Nexus and got banned for doing so (here and here are two recent examples). And obviously there are tons of generalized applications that will scrape mods from websites, including Nexus Mods.

Lifetime means just that - the life of the Nexus Mods account. I paid for lifetime premium once and I will never have to pay for it again.

Don't forget the extra 5 seconds that are added on per mod which help to protect site security and keep people from downloading / scraping every mod in their database!

You might believe that it won't get people to pay for premium, but the Nexus Mods owner (Dark0ne) likely believed otherwise. He's been running this site a long time and has, for the most part as far as I'm concerned, done a great job at it. He certainly knew beforehand that this change might drive some people away - potentially like yourself - but that the protest and some users leaving would be be worth it in the long run for Nexus Mods from a financial / company-benefit standpoint. Obviously I'm ascribing thoughts and behavior to someone else, so I could be wrong, but what we are seeing being implemented - and the backlash - are typically known well in advance by the company / the people making the decisions to implement something. Awesome avatar image, by the way. :D

Sure, but the thing you're getting for free costs money for the person providing the free thing to, you know, provide said free thing. So if you have to jump through a hoop or two in order to increase the chances that people will switch to premium and keep the site running then you're still getting your free stuff for free, just 10 seconds slower per - still 100% free - mod. Now, do I see those pages or have to wait 5 extra seconds per mod download? No. I bought lifetime premium as a way of saying thank you to a site that has hosted my mods - for free - for over a decade. If I were designing the system I would have removed the extra "slow download" click, but the extra 5 seconds per download is (probably) an anti-DDoS / anti-scraping tool and likely isn't going away.

No problem. Always happy to help. :)

No, it shouldn't break the property, so long as you leave the actual property declaration as-is.