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Originally Posted by jayeff
I guess the more threads on this the better, but it isn't really a whole lot different from what was suggested in one of Smokey's threads and as someone else mentioned, I really don't think that is something for the average surfer to attempt to tackle. In fact I would go so far as to say it is almost irresponsible to advise most surfers to manually edit their registries.
It's also unnecessary they take that risk, since Search-and-Destroy (and presumably other free programs/services) can safely remove not only Zango, but other scumware too.
While it cannot (generally) hurt to approach this problem from every angle, I think we are kidding ourselves if we believe we can make more than a small dent in the problem with this approach. Zango is just one of many scumware operations and so long as they are supported by people promoting their installs and customers buying from them, installs and the theft of traffic will continue to grow.
Reluctant as so many are to speak out, especially against some of the well-known names, in the end that is going to be the only real way to beat this problem.
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Educating the surfer is good. it helps. It is not the end-all, I agree.
What I like about this the most is that zango's advertisers will not make a penny (or for that matter pay a penny to zango) from sites that are using scripts like this.
I feel this way about that traffic, I am not going to make any money from it because of you (zango) so fuck you, you are not going to make any money from it either. Whether or not we are able to educate the surfers to remove it, if we can block them from seeing zango's adds then we will put a huge dent in zangos income.
It's all about the money. If you can't stop sponsors from paying them (AFF / CAMS / SexSearch) then you can try to stop the people from seeing their ads. After all it is OUR traffic, we should have control over where they go.