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Zango Under Fire From Adult Webmasters
An anonymous reader writes, "Over the past few days, adult webmasters have been accusing adware maker Zango of 'stealing sales' by means of the following method: Computer users with Zango's adware on board will pop open a window containing the affiliate merchant's site they happen to be on at the time, except with Zango's own affiliate code in the window. By doing this, Zango claims credit for the sale and the original, rule-following merchant, the one who referred the user there, loses out. Despite this practice having been around since at least 2004, it seems the adult webmasters are only just realizing this takes place — surprising, considering how deeply connected the worlds of adware and porn are. It seems pornographers pushing adware is acceptable only as long as they aren't the ones getting burnt. Part of me doesn't care, and part of me hopes they carry the financial clout to force Zango to change their current practices."
It continually impresses me how advanced the system administrators for adult sites are. The continually push the boundaries of streaming video, audio, bandwidth, efficiency, and security. I don't know if I should be surprised or not, but the selling of sex seems to drive technology like nothing else.
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
Not all participants in the movies are entirely willing though. In fact, on the Internet, you can even find *gasp* movies of people who don't know they are being filmed at all, and those sites even have spyware/adware on them too.
This case is a bit like watching ambulance chasers suing tobacco lobbyists. You kinda hope both sides annihilate each other.
Oh You POS
Seems like the person who wrote this article completely missed the point of what he/she was reading.. The recent furor isnt over "adware" or even "zango" , its about companies selling out their affiliates to these companies..
... ( birds chriping ) because porn is bad mkay...
Adware and popups have been around forever , neither of them focus soley on adult or mainstream.
example.. see the ad on top of this page.. zango overwrites it so you dont get paid.. i.e. you make less money.. your ads are served by adbrite.. how would you feel if you found out adbrite was paying someone else to cut you out.. ? Thats what this is about..
But i suppose this is ok with you because ? umm
You calim the adult industry is just learning about this , and now solving it.. whereas you have known about it the whole time and still arent doing anything to stop it.
Maybe your just a bit jealous the adult industry is doing something instead of being apathetic and letting yourself be abused
Look at the title and date of the comment above parent, titled "Adult" webmasters and dated Saturday October 14, @05:04PM, posted by user "secolactico". It is curious that the time of the parent is also Adult webmasters, and it just happens to have been posted the same exact minute as the previous post. Coincidence?