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Just so everyone knows, Jim will be working on a better mousetrap in the coming weeks.

We're on their radar - and it sorta sucks because as soon as Jim comes up with a new idea, it's kinda hard to hide it from them while posting it here on the board so that people can know aobut it :D

But last I heard, new measures were in the works & programmers were being contacted |thumb

Quote:

Originally Posted by TopbucksTrixxxi (Post 327792)

monro, if you still have it installed, can you show me a screencap of what it looks like with their popover warning that it's 'scare tactics'?
I'd appreciate it - I want you to send it to the email I'm going to send you on PM. Thanks!

The pop up is gone now. Ask Greenie about a screenshot. Zango is worse than ever, no wonder with all spineless people around.

If you use the Zango trap in .htacces you will have zango pop up's all over. Remove it ASP. They won.

Not a word about that here! Fighting Zango is dangerous. They have support everywhere. I got banned at GFY for fighting AFF-Zango.
At our forum at sexyads, ( webmasters only with login ) Aff-Zango is popping up after we started a thread fighting Zango.

Very nice info..thanks

A PHP/htaccess Zango solution

I added this to my pages today:

zango_detect.php - PHP file

Code:


        if ( stristr ( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "zango" ) ):

        ?>

        

        

                close

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        endif;

?>

and I also added this to my domain root folder's .htaccess file:

Code:

php_value auto_append_file "/path/to/zango_detect.php"

Of course you should replace /path/to/ with the actual path to your script. A few notes:

This won't work if a the loaded PHP script (http://site.com/page.php) has executed one of those:

Code:

exit;

exit();

die();

I'm sure you get the picture.

You could auto_prepend_file the script, but it will crash if you have a header("anything") or setcookie() - i.e. if you modify the HTTP headers.

It's a lame ass solution, but it has a close button on it, it works on almost every page without modification, it's save script/HTML wise and it still allows your surfers to see your content. That way poor surfers who have no idea wtf is going on won't be redirected, even tho nobody's using Zango to advertise on your pages.

If you have Zango installed or if you can modify your browser to send a user agent name that has the word "zango" in it (case insensitive), you should see a red warning here:

http://www.nudemenblog.com/blog/