Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

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"

Comments

Re:MSN sure has great software

[man_ls]

I'd have modded this +1 Funny if you'd logged in. Nice job.

Re:Better way to do Ads

[Dasein]

Google does the same thing:

Here is more info.

Re:Better way to do Ads

[jesser]

I gave Google $50 to advertise my site on some uncommon keywords and keyword combinations. I was surprised when I learned which keywords and which ads were doing best, but I was able to drop the keywords that were getting the lowest clickthrough rates. If I had been trying to advertise a revenue-generating site, I think that would have been a well-spent $50 for just the knowledge of the clickthrough rates for various keywords and various text ads. Since my site doesn't generate revenue, it was just a fun way to give my favorite search engine some money and learn a little about how advertising works.

Re:mod this up, not down

[morie]

You can metamoderate however...