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You have got to be kidding! When you target traffic from affiliate sites you are directly stealing money from them. Sure it may be small, but it's so large that you won't stop buying the traffic. So it must make you enough sales to make all the headache worth it.

I think my answer was actually shorter:

I have no problem with pops.

BTW what's not black and white about my story? It's the same thing, no? Or is it only "evil" when AFF is invovled? To me it's as black and white as can be. User downloads app and receives some benefit (game, price watch, whatever) in exchange for advertising.

User downloads app. Your company intercepts and steals traffic from others in the industry. You take it from your own affiliates, and from affiliates of other industry programs. You're a parasite and much worse than Zango themselves, because you choose to participate in the theft. Then you take it farther by trying to justify it.

Zango won't care if you are outbid. They will sell the traffic interception to the highest bidder. If I knew your own personal sites, assuming you have any, I could bid on your traffic and intercept it.

Someone should start bidding up the price that you (AFF/Lars) pay for Zango traffic.. just to make sure you pay more for it.

The amount of additional traffic we are gaining is nothing compared to the amount of traffic we are protecting. Check our alexa ranking out and figure how much traffic someone else could get by bidding on our domain. When we step out for about a week we saw our nearest competitor buy it all up.

Then Zango could just pay their affiliates more to get more installs.

I'm out of this thread everyone. Goodnight and look for a HUGE annoucement from us tomorrow.

Great idea. Maybe some of those who are selling zango installs should pay attention to this plan, in order to increase their Zango per install payouts.. while at the same time making sure AFF keeps paying more and more for the traffic they are intercepting from everyone.

This sounds like a good excuse for buying traffic targeted at AFF or Cams, but what about buying traffic from sites that aren't even sending you traffic?

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yes that is great excuse for why he is taking sales from everyone, Will76 didn't put up to his satisfaction, Sorry I let everyone down. I didn't know AFF's decission to use Scumware hinged whether or not I used clickcash... silly me.

I think Will should stop sending to Clickcash until they stop allowing spyware, there are other cam companies he can work with to get conversions right for him along with the payout.

I am glad you guys (AFF crew) is finally responding to the issues, your excuses are rather amusing.

if you all can't enforce your intellectual property with a domestic infringer- i can help point you in the right direction. all you have to do is protect your intellectual property. the can't beat them join them thing is ........

i'm going to write anti-zango worm after all these talks... lol!

If noone bought the zango keywords would affiliates get more or less signups?
More.

Who's buying the keywords?
AFF.

=> Aff are stealing from their affiliates.

Will76 = SO FUCKING OWNED

If it were only about protecting AFF's domain and traffic then why are you bidding on other domains/sites that have nothing to do with cams?

owning of the week at least lol :D

Will, you're officially the biggest idiot on this board and very fucking owned. I mean like totally fucking owned. And lets not forget also the biggest hypocrite.

will, I'm looking forward to the day you'll start threads about clickcash using zango.

what is amusing is your total fucking lack or presecnce in this thread.....bumparoo

Will you got owned.

Deal with it.

aside from the will - lars drama i finally read up on all the zango shit... its fucked up for sure, from the sponsors involved i only use sexsearch actively... conversion wise i dont see any changes yet, in fact this week they are better then before - i'll see what i will do.

Bullshit. You can prevent them, but most can´t afford it. So somehow you´re right. But I have to admit that trademarks are handled in different ways depending on local laws, so there may be different results for different countries.

I cant believe you just said that.



Fling will be getting more and more of my traffic.

This is fucking priceless.

how does this change anything? Does AFF still use Zango? Will is not the only one with a problem from what I can see. IF will is using Zango also how does that make AFF right? I can see why people would not send traffic to ifriends now. It just seems like 2 wrongs make a right in this case. People have told AFF about Zango and how it hurts them, If this is not true they should show the facts. Maybe I missed the post but does AFF plan on using Zango in the future?

I wouldn't know you if we bumped into each other on the street. Which means that I start out, the same as I do with anyone else, assuming you are honest, intelligent, etc. Naive, certainly. Gets me into trouble, often. I just prefer to think positively of people until they give me a reason to think differently.

You just gave me such a reason, because there can be no way you sincerely believe that is what scumware means to anyone here.

Those who download scumware have their own issues, such as transparency of disclosure, ease of removal, etc. But they are not what this means to affiliates and other sponsors. We are affected by how that advertising is placed. And the core factor is that its appearance is triggered by someone who has succeeded in getting a visitor to his or her site to click a link through to a sponsor. Generating those clicks is the reason his site exists and getting sales from those clicks is what pays his bills.

Scumware, whether automatically or because some scumware customers choose to use it that way, delivers - as the first page the surfer will see after clicking a link - a page owned by the scumware customer. Even if that page fails to make a sale, given surfers' well-known dislike of consoles (their 2nd most hated feature after spam email), the operator of the traffic generating site has little chance of making a sale.

That isn't competition, to all practical intents and purposes it is theft. In some cases trademarks are being abused and in every case the traffic is being diverted without the permission of nor compensation for the person responsible for its creation.

More than just representing a total lack of business ethics, those who work with or condone scumware also betray a total lack of business sense. If this were a reasonable business model, it would be one capable of being scaled up. But if this one were used by even a majority of sponsors and major affiliates, there wouldn't even be a point in trying to promote anyone in the affected market areas.

Taken to its logical conclusion, affiliates would end up promoting nothing but scumware installs, leaving sponsors to fight over scumware traffic, paying more and more for it until no-one made a cent. Except that of course, if affiliates did promote nothing but scumware installs, there would be no more links to other sponsors on their sites, so the scumware providers would go out of businesses and sponsors would once more need their affiliates.

Scumware providers are middlemen. They do not generate a single extra click, nor a single extra sale for the industry as a whole. All of their estimated $2 billion a year income comes straight off the bottom line of affiliates and sponsors and the only reason they even exist is because of the stupidity and greed of a relatively small number of people and the unwillingness of the majority to act in their own interests.

Forget the 2 wrongs dont make a right and just think why would someone start a hate campaign about a program that buy adware traffic, when this person is a big affiliate of a company which also buys adware traffic.
But will doesnt mention anything about the company he promotes just shit loads of stuff about a company he doesnt promote. Theres something more wrong with that imo then buying adware traffic in the first place.
If zango display pops thats up to them and the user should learn how to uninstall or use a pc forum to remove it. If zango let people bid on urls that up to them. You should be going after zango not aff or any of the other advertisers.

Jayeff, you hit it solidly right on the head.

Zango has already proven that it's methods for obtaining customers in the past (some part of the current 20 million) was not legal, and they have to pay the FTC a fine and are now having to recontact all those customers to explain.

Further, Zango continues to use a pre-checked "I agree to the terms box" and a trigger button marked "PLAY" rather than "INSTALL TOOLBAR", in violation of the same set of Truste rules that they said they would adhere to.

What AFF / Cams don't realize is that Zango is a fair weather friend, and as soon as someone with a bigger check comes down the street, Zango will sell them down the river and the fun will be over.

You are also correct Jayeff, that by popping a console in the sale process, not only do they steal the sale if possible, but they also piss of a large number of people who hate popups and don't buy from the underlying affiliate site either.

What Sagi doesn't get (and Lars I think is just playing dumb on) is that they can take steps protect their intellectual rights, and they don't have to pay Zango a ransom to retain their traffic. Just the idea that you have to pay a company to keep the people going to your domain to be actually going to your domains seems like a slam dunk legal angle. That others have been able to do this without issue, plus Zango is currently in deep shit with the FTC, it would seem pretty easy to resolve. Send a nicely worded letter to to Zango with a CC to the FTC about the issue, and see how quickly your sites are no longer sold on their marketplace.

Lars, you don't want to fix it because in the end, this has been your biggest month, you have made the most money, and that trumps it all. It isn't the affiliates, it's the cash in your pocket. I understand. I just hope everyone else does too.

Nothing that Will does or has done changes AFF/ cam's actions one bit, and nobody should forget that.

thx for sharing the info!!

Interesting , I knew this was going to pop up sooner or later

because u are the eternal surfer right?

infact that is a nice idea.

if a company could do that properly and bust popups at the very right time then i would use that definitley, but if that adware got abused then it would be totally wrong.

will76 ......... U GOT OWNED !!!

This deserves repeating.

Everyone is welcome to Google ( Gator spyware ) and read up on the mainstream companies that sued Gator for doing the EXACT same thing Zango is doing and these companies won.

Don't take my word for it, don't take Lars' word for it. Look it up yourself. SAME EXACT SITUATION...

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Really ??

Funny all you fuckers who were chimming in I got owned. Where are you now ?


Yeah thats what I thought. It's ok I don't blame you. You were just miss guided sheep being led by Lars and jumped on his bandwagon.

I have said from day one clickcash was working on it, and they were taking it seriously. You believed Lars over me. thats cool. Just funny seeing so many people scream owned! and then all of them get owned! way to go.

you aint kidding. I have never seen so many people scream Owned and then own themselves... priceless indeed.


What happened to Lars ?

Thanks, did I deal with it to your satisfaction ?

I think this might be the owning of the year

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Where did everyone go ???

The AFF crickets invaded this thread too. As soon as the tide goes the other way, wow... they don't even bother to Iraqi Information Minister, they just turn tail and run.

i love zango!!!!!!

This issue has never been AFF vs. Will76.
The issue is "sponsor" programs using spyware to steal affiliate traffic. It doesn't matter if they are using Zango or another piece of spyware. And it doesn't matter if it is only 1 surfer a year. Stealing is stealing.

AFF made themselves a target by initially ignoring affiliates and then calling us sheep when the heat didn't fade by itself. AFF isn't the only program using spyware, but they are defending it.

I've never talked to Will76 privately, but I do believe that his involvement in this is coming from a desire to clean up this industry to a point where stealing is not accepted. I also believe that he would have targeted any program as heavily involved in spyware as AFF. AFF just responded in a way that made it seem like they are the biggest thieves in the industry. AFF did this to themselves.

That was roughly my thinking too. I'm getting a huge kick out of how times I've seen the work "hypocrite" I'm quite sure we all are to a certain extent. What makes me sick is when people swap out the phrase "I'll do anything no matter how shitty to make money" with "I'm comfortable with the way we do business".

After a 1/2 coffee I felt I must add that my previous statement was the result of the absolute stupidity displayed by Sagi earlier rather than anything Lars has said. Quite frankly there are a lot of companies using Zango and all of the pussies are probably hoping no one outs them. Lars made a bad decision in an attempt to make a little more cash without thinking of the possible consequences. Others have done the same but at least he isn't cowering in a corner