Remember Zango?

[Major (Tom)]

I was just thinking of that period in this industry.

[EddyTheDog]

I think so - Wasn't is some sort of adware?..

[Major (Tom)]

I think so - Wasn't is some sort of adware?..

Yes, Very aggressive adware

[Klen]

They were tubes before tubes.

[CurrentlySober]

I think so - Wasn't is some sort of adware?..

It would overwrite affiliate cookies. Say you as a webmaster sent a surfer to a ccbill site, using your affiliate code '12345' - If that surfer had zango installed, zango would say 'Oh, Im going to a ccbill site... Well OK, lets just change the code to a different one then ('54321') and the zango advertiser would get the sale and not you.

Here's an article alluding to it:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-zan...lt-webmasters/

[Roald]

It would overwrite affiliate cookies. Say you as a webmaster sent a surfer to a ccbill site, using your affiliate code '12345' - If that surfer had zango installed, zango would say 'Oh, Im going to a ccbill site... Well OK, lets just change the code to a different one then ('54321') and the zango advertiser would get the sale and not you.

Here's an article alluding to it:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-zan...lt-webmasters/

Besides that it would hijack search terms and send people to a different site than they were searching for. Along those lines. A certain well known dating site was a big fan ;)

[NoWhErE]

Didn't they also have a bunch of paid shills spamming this board? Tristan and whatnot?

[mechanicvirus]

Zango was the start of Z named companies that just sucked ass - Zombaio as well.

[OneHungLo]

Didn't they also have a bunch of paid shills spamming this board? Tristan and whatnot?

I think tristan_d and reed_4 were the swoit crew.

[CaptainHowdy]

Zango was the start of Z named companies that just sucked ass - Zombaio as well.

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[CurrentlySober]

A snapshot in time - The tubes were just around the corner, but all were oblivious to what was to come...