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Originally Posted by KrisKross
The reason Lars gets "crucified" so to speak is because he constantly puts himself on a pedestal, brags about revenue and being the number one affiliate program and claims to be an industry leader. If you're going to play the role of leader, your followers expect you to lead. If you set a shitty example, you're going to be martyred.
The same thing would happen to anyone in a high profile position in this industry who engaged in shady or thieving tactics. People would attack Lensman constantly is Adult.com admittedly used spyware to steal signups. Look at how many people still slag 12clicks. Hell, you've been targeted yourself for accepting to propagate installers.
What makes things worse in Lars' case is that he came out and admitted what he was doing. He literally said that he was using spyware and that his use of spyware stole traffic and signups for affiliates. People aren't too impressed when you brazenly admit to screwing them.
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Yep I agree with almost all of your points and they are very valid... I don't want to jump back on the defending zango bandwagon here but very few gfyers have any idea about legitimate installers. They lump ALL installers into the category of spyware no matter what they do.
We are currently doing installations for an anti-virus mainstream software company. This same program you can go to download.com and download yourself, we are not misleading the surfer or making them install anything they didn't want. If someone goes and searches for anti-virus software they are returned with our result and anti-virus software download file. The software is free for 7 days and then you are prompted with a would you like to buy your free trial has ended popup. If you don't want to buy you simply uninstall the software and that's it! No popups, no reminders, no toolbars, nothing!
People will believe whatever they want to believe but we have only ever offered LEGIT software installations. I can't afford to be fucking people over this industry is way too small and I would like to believe I'm an honest person with a good heart.
Anyways sorry for the rant, but it really bothers me that people just jump to conclusions about what we offer and how we run our business.
DH