Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam
by dangrossman on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @06:37AM
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It's too soon to blame this on Zugo, unless you know more than was stated in the article. As far as we know, they're just a custom toolbar distributor, like Conduit and many other companies. How many people away they are from the affiliate buying the ads, how many people away they are from the company paying that affiliate, and whether any terms and conditions in-between forbid tricking people into installs are all unknowns.
Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam
by lreeves on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:43AM
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Zugo can certainly take some flack for having a toolbar without an uninstaller, and an FAQ URL that doesn't work. When something becomes purposely difficult to uninstall for end-users it crosses over into malware territory.
Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam
by JacobAldridge on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @06:44AM
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You're right - I mis-read the article as saying Zugo was the advertiser. My previous comment has been edited to make the same statement about Make-my-baby.com
I suspect the mystery of the changed homepage and new toolbar is, to many users, alongside the mystery of why the printer sometimes doesn't work or my cell phone drops out when I'm still in the living room. 'It's technology. It happens. Nothing I can do about it.'
Which I guess means Zugo [Edit - actually, Make-my-baby.com] is manipulating the uneducated (in a tech sense). Borderline business behaviour, though a well thought out and executed strategy.