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Originally Posted by webmasterchecks
sure, but in their best interest to show big numbers, they just dont tell you how many uninstalls happen every day
thats like saying a paysite that gets 100 joins a day, should have 35k+ members within a year
and again, im not saying that a lot of people dont have spyware on their computer, im just saying your going a little overboard when you say that zango is stealing, at a minimum of 3% of your traffic
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My own server stats show a pretty high penetration of zango "reported" (about 1%) and since they are (a) not the biggest, and (b) not always announcing zango or their other brands - I have to assume that a fair bit of traffic is being fucked with on a regular basis.
I think, as an example, that it would be stunningly easy for someone to create a spyware program that detects calls to CCbill's click program, and does a substitution - or even redirects the surfer to another similar site (or even general porn).
If you think that is only 3%, well... you might want to take off the rose colored glasses and surf around for a while. The number of people infected with some sort of spyware is HUGE! Remember all those codec installers? The Iframe guys? It's endless.
I would really like to hear from the processing companies on all of this. Since it is a holiday, I can always bump this back up for them on Tuesday.