Zango Confirmed Sponsors List

[Jim]

The movie is exactly as they explain it. And, I get what both you and thta page is saying. So, either an affiliate of netflix bought the traffic from Zango or Netflix itself bought the traffic. I found a page listing a partial list of Zango clients.
http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/images/180-jan06/
You are probably right...it probably is an affiliate buying traffic from them.

So, you know what we can expect from any sponsors accused of using zango, right? "It was an affiliate and we have terminated their account".

I did also read that yahoo used them up until last year. Here is a good page about the owners of Zango. http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/180-affiliates/

And here is how to remove the software...
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-zangosearch.html

[DamageX]

Originally Posted by Jim

The movie is exactly as they explain it. And, I get what both you and thta page is saying. So, either an affiliate of netflix bought the traffic from Zango or Netflix itself bought the traffic. I found a page listing a partial list of Zango clients.
http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/images/180-jan06/
You are probably right...it probably is an affiliate buying traffic from them.

So, you know what we can expect from any sponsors accused of using zango, right? "It was an affiliate and we have terminated their account".

I did also read that yahoo used them up until last year. Here is a good page about the owners of Zango. http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/180-affiliates/

And here is how to remove the software...
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-zangosearch.html

Any sponsor allowing affiliates to generate sales via Zango is just as guilty as the affiliates themselves, if they know about it.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by DamageX

Any sponsor allowing affiliates to generate sales via Zango is just as guilty as the affiliates themselves, if they know about it.

That's the thing, how do you prove they know about it? Sure, once a list is gathered, they have been warned. But until then, you never know the truth. That is, unless you are stupid and admit to it by saying we had to do it to compete. At first look, it looked as though netflix was stealing traffic that bestbuy bought a commercial for. But, after further investigation, it seems maybe netflix knew nothing about it. I truthfully think the only winners in this thing is zango.

Webmasters and sponsors both are going to be hurt before this is over. I have said this in private and I will say it now...the answer is to build a better mousetrap. We already know how to tell if a surfer has the toolbar installed. It can't be hard to do something with these surfers knowing that. Hell, just redirecting these people with the toolbar to a page letting them know they have adware and how to uninstall it will help greatly. Not to mention a decent programmer that can write a program that will disable the toolbar.

After reading a list of the investors, we are the proverbial David fighting Goliath. We need to work smarter, not harder.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Jim

That's the thing, how do you prove they know about it? Sure, once a list is gathered, they have been warned. But until then, you never know the truth. That is, unless you are stupid and admit to it by saying we had to do it to compete. At first look, it looked as though netflix was stealing traffic that bestbuy bought a commercial for. But, after further investigation, it seems maybe netflix knew nothing about it. I truthfully think the only winners in this thing is zango.

Webmasters and sponsors both are going to be hurt before this is over. I have said this in private and I will say it now...the answer is to build a better mousetrap. We already know how to tell if a surfer has the toolbar installed. It can't be hard to do something with these surfers knowing that. Hell, just redirecting these people with the toolbar to a page letting them know they have adware and how to uninstall it will help greatly. Not to mention a decent programmer that can write a program that will disable the toolbar.

After reading a list of the investors, we are the proverbial David fighting Goliath. We need to work smarter, not harder.

decent programmer that can write a
program that will disable the toolbar.
That's a thought in a way.
About a year ago spyware embeders were writing programs
that when entering a puter they would uninstall other
spyware programs the person had..
Problum tho is they update the damn things too often and they
get better all the time..
That's why the CWS shreader was updated weekly..
I had the link to the GammaCash affil Forum for the toolbar
and just passed the info to Merijn who was writing the Shreder.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Jim

So, you know what we can expect from any sponsors accused of using zango, right? "It was an affiliate and we have terminated their account".

I was thinking about that when I said that criminal charges should be filed. Just terminating a house account don't work too good then. No wiggle room!

Trying to equate it to the real world, I see zango as being the thief, and the affiliate as receiving stolen goods. Now if one was to file charges against both, the affiliate might be out of reach in a different country. But, we all know where zango lives.

And as far as Goliath, I wonder how long they would hang around if some smart attorney files under RICO.