Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

Posted by timothy on Monday November 12, 2001 @04:31PM from the who-sends-what-to-whom-and-how dept.

Gerard J. Pinzone writes: "Limewire 1.8 now comes with mandatory banner ads. The reasons given by one of their developers, Christopher Rohrs, for the new ads are that 'Bandwidth alone from www.limewire.com, www.limewire.org, and router.limewire.com is around $10,000 month! And we need to pay developer's salaries--like mine--to keep driving innovation on the Gnutella network.' On top of all this, the banner ad software Limewire is using is "Cydoor". Many users are complaining that this is spyware. Here is a link to the message in the Gnutella forums where this topic is being discussed"

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Re:Installation of Cydoor is OPTIONAL! by johnnyproton · 2001-11-12 17:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

Actually, I also declined to install the 3rd party software. However, it still installed a program called EzStub which consistently begs my firewall to access the internet.

There is no mention of this program in the Windows Registry, either.