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Originally Posted by KrisKross
Stuart, I'm honestly curious to know how you'd feel if you found out that one of the legals installs that P2PAds helps spread was swapping out ref codes, forcibly changing home pages and performing other legal but malicious activities. And how would you feel if such activities were responsible for you losing sales?
I'm asking this not as an accusation, because no one has posted any proof that any of the installs that P2PAds distributes are malicious. I'm asking this as a fellow webmaster, one who respects your opinion and one who respects Mark, GTS and P2PAds.
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It would seriously suck, and wouldn't be allowed. That's why the question was asked.... did Missie or Will76 actually come into contact with a file through the p2pads network that does this. Because if so, we'd love to know about it so that the files can be removed at the source and the sale to the company terminated.
It's not acceptable. It's a horrible business practice.... and won't be tolerated.
But no such file has been presented as of yet. So therefore we have nothing to go on except "imagine if."
I would personally be in the office kicking Mark's ass if he allowed such practices to go on because anyone who knows me, knows that I will have absolutely nothing to do with it. I will not condone that kind of activity no matter what. Infact, my resignation wouldn't be far behind the ass kicking (actually, he's been to the gym more than me, I'd likely get my own ass kicked).
But the point is, I take this crap seriously because the one thing I've become best known for by many in this industry is my integrity. The fact that people would blindly lump all software into the same pile is pretty naive. And I really don't appreciated being labeled anything based on assumption.
The only thing I've been asking in this thread is that people open their list of possibilities to the notion that perhaps not every site has a popup, that not ever file has a spyware embedded, that not everything in a p2p network is harmful.. and that not everyone who says "hit me up" is instantly trying to cheat everyone he does business with. Think about it. Selling traffic to a cheater or to a reputable business... it's sold at the same price. Except there's risk with one and not the other. Why take that risk?