Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam

Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by jbk on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:54AM (#2115588)

So funny to see Zugo around...

They've had offered us to bundle their 'nice' toolbar inside the VLC installer so that every install of VLC would have install this thing...

And they proposed a very high value for each install...

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by brettnak on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:53PM (#2117103)

This is off topic of this conversation, but I have to say that I absolutely love VLC. Thank you all.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by spoiledtechie on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @11:04AM (#2116208)

well, Im glad you didn't. VLC is by far the best Vid player out there and only is getting better. I hate spam and the non-super users would sadly accidentally install it.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by markkat on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @11:26AM (#2116325)

One nice thing about HN, is that you occasionally stumble across the people that write the software you use. Thanks for VLC. And thank you for turning Zugo down. Priorities are everything.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by xiongchiamiov on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:07PM (#2117982)

VLC is by far the best Vid player out there

Only if you aren't watching files with, say, ordered chapters, or comments inside the SSA files.

Granted, that's most of the population, but there's a very particular dislike of VLC in the animu community, although some of the commonly-stated criticisms have since been fixed.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by jbk on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:56PM (#2118522)

This is true.

And while, the SSA situation was catastrophic, this is now fixed, I believe (even comments).

The ordered and linked chapter in MKV is still not resolved... Patches are welcome.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by jbk on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @11:22AM (#2116304)

What I don't understand is why Bing doesn't stop them...

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by jacquesm on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @12:37PM (#2116601)

Money.

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by adrianbye on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @11:24AM (#2116314)

how much did they offer to pay per install?

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by jbk on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:32PM (#2117020)

Sorry, but mail me for this piece of information...

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Re:Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam by mahmud on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:52PM (#2118096)

That info serves absolutely no one except the spammers by giving them some leads.

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