Zango Under Fire From Adult Webmasters

"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." FULL STORY

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Does anyone else know more about this? Seems I remember hearing about this a couple years ago with Zango. Anyone have any more info?

This was a big topic of conversation on the panel at the Phoenix Forum that Lars from AdultFriendFinder, Tony Morgan at National Net, Greg from VideoSecrets, Brad From MojoHost and Myself was on.

You should be able to find a link to the panel at the http://www.thephoenixforum.com website :)

Regards,

Lee

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Originally Posted by Lee

This was a big topic of conversation on the panel at the Phoenix Forum that Lars from AdultFriendFinder, Tony Morgan at National Net, Greg from VideoSecrets, Brad From MojoHost and Myself was on.

You should be able to find a link to the panel at the http://www.phoenixforum.com website :)

Regards,

Lee

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Thanks Lee I'll keep checking back for the site to be active then take a look around when it comes up :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Squirt

Thanks Lee I'll keep checking back for the site to be active then take a look around when it comes up :thumbsup:

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Sorry i put the wrong url, i fixed it in my original post :)

Regards,

Lee

As I mentioned the other day, they hit me up on AIM about three days ago wanting me to promote them. So this is going to become a bigger issue as unsuspecting wm's join their program.

Oh and btw, if the Industry is so worried about it and opposed about it, why don't they just refuse to pay them?

Michael