Adware Score Card

[blebs]

Some of us may be interested in this score card:

http://download.com.com/1200-20-884830.html

[denolth2]

Thanks, Blebs....glad to see you on the ball on this stuff! :D

I know nothing... :D

:p

[fredra]

Originally posted by denolth2
Thanks, Blebs....glad to see you on the ball on this stuff! :D

I know nothing... :D

:p

You don't????
Yeah right!!!
Thanks blebs

[denolth2]

He'll agree with you....

but I still know nothing...safer that way....little knowledge is a dangerous thing for a denolth to have... :D

den2 :O

[Norm]

Thanks blebbs, haven't sen that one yet.

Damn, DAP (speedbit) is on there. I guess i'll have to eat my words on DAP. I didn't think it collected personal info, or tracked users.
I was wrong ....gulp!!

I would still like to see some proof about DAP, lists don't tell the whole truth. I want the logs!!!

[Croc]

Hi Norm,
I can't give you the logs because I don't use DAP, however:

This is the privacy part of DAP's EULA. I hope it shows what you want..............

Privacy
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In order to enable the development and improvement of products and services, for providing greater consumer experience (by relevant offerings), for the operation of some of the functionalities of the Product and Services and for the ability to send you targeted promotional materials of SpeedBit or any of its business partners, SpeedBit may gather contact information and other personally identifiable information (such as username, email address, country and zip-code), and demographic information (like their age, occupation or gender). SpeedBit, it's partners, affiliates or other third parties may use any information submitted or collected from you. If you wish to remove your information from SpeedBit email mailing lists and stop receiving future email communications from SpeedBit you may unsubscribe by an email to: emailunsubscribe@speedbit.com.

SpeedBit may further gather information, usage pattern, and registration parameters provided by you, the Product, and/or through the Service and system configuration, your IP address and other network information. SpeedBit its partners, affiliates or other third parties may use this information provided by you and/or the Product and/or through the Service, or information related to, for the purpose of providing the Services, providing targeted advertising, marketing, co-registration to other services by SpeedBit or other parties and for the development and improvement of the products and services, provided that if published, it will be done only in aggregated form which is not personally identifiable. SpeedBit may share this information with its business partners.
SpeedBit may use "cookies" to monitor users' activity. SpeedBit does not require that you accept cookies, and you may disable cookies at any time. However, some functionality of our Product or Services may be impaired if you decline to accept cookies.
Credit card information submitted during the purchase of a Paid Product or Paid Services is collected on a secure site using secure socket layer encryption, and is verified by organizations such as VeriSign(tm). SpeedBit cannot guarantee, however, that the measures in place are (or will remain) adequate. Except as necessary for the purpose of routine processing of payments, SpeedBit does not share credit history or credit card information with other companies or third parties, unless compelled by law or court order to do so.
This Agreement does not cover the information practices exercised by other providers of products or services, advertisers, or other websites, which are linked to the Product or Services. Furthermore, if you acquired or purchased the Product or Services other than through SpeedBit's web site, your personal information may be subject to different privacy practices exercised by other providers. SpeedBit is not responsible for the privacy practices exercised by any such providers. Please consult the privacy statement of these providers to learn more about their privacy practices.
You hereby explicitly agree to the collection and use of any information by SpeedBit or its business partners as stated hereunder. If you do not agree to the collection and use of your personal information as stated you must completely un-install the Product and delete the product from all storage media.
.................................................................................................... .....

To find out exactly what spyware is being used, you have to run the "setup.exe" for DAP. The truth is in there and to hint at the spyware used you only have to look at my avatar. You will be asked to agree to the collection of information and it will tell you the methods of collection. Once you have the info, you can simply exit the setup without installing.
Have fun. ;)

Croc.

[Norm]

Thanks Croc much appreciated. Sorry for the delay, I got into something.

Time for me to bite the bullet and use one of the alternatives. I like all the features of DAP and kinda got used to having it around. I also have a collection of Download Acclerator versions from close to it's inception. I'll have to go back and check some of them out and see if they have any ads. I don't believe the earliest versions did, and they did a good job, just less features. The spyware corporations hadn't heard of DA in the early days.

It takes a commited moral standing to hold out against money vs submitting to the spyware infestations in your work. I wonder if the programmers care?

[Croc]

That's ok Norm.
Did what you got into fit well? ;) Pics please. Oh, hang on, that's slip into something... forget the pics. :D


Lots of discussion at Becky's on DAP. MickeytheMan said he was going to frame the EULA. LOL.

Apart from the EULA there is now some extra pages to "compulsory agreement" to before the install will kick in.

You are probably right about the earlier editions and the struggle for the almighty dollar is fierce these days.

In SpeedBit's favour I have to say that they do give a VERY UPFRONT warning that crap is going to be added to the system and the install is NOT going to proceed without the crap. The unfortunate bit is that most d/loaders would NOT be savvy about what agreement to the conditions entail.

Have a great weekend.

Croc.

[dannjr]

Originally posted by blebs99
Some of us may be interested in this score card:

http://download.com.com/1200-20-884830.html

Updated: http://dslnuts.com/cnetadware.htm

I think you´ll get why... :rolleyes:

Good one blebs99 :D

[blebs]

Originally posted by dannjr


Updated: http://dslnuts.com/cnetadware.htm

I think you´ll get why... :rolleyes:

Good one blebs99 :D

Of course that isn't all the nasty objects and companies out here, but some of the most known and most seen. I found the card to be informative, but it only scratches the surface. ;)

[Norm]

I started using FreshDownload from Freshdevices. It does what I wanted, and I still get 250KB/Sec average on downloads. All I really needed was the # of simultaneous downloads feature. IE only allows 2 downlaods at a time.
There's probably a reg hack to allow more, but too lazy to go look for it.

I'll just use this new one, until it gets on the list too :)
How long will that be? Any guesses?

[TonyT]

Norm, how did you missTHIS (http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml).
(Web Patch - faster loading of Web Pages)

IE only allows 2-4 silmultaneous connections = downloads. Install that patch and increase it. I have had up to 10 different MP3's downloading at the same time.

[Norm]

I didn't realize that tweak gave IE the go ahead to increase simultaneous downloads, I thought it was for faster web pages only.
Thanks Tony, I might uninstall this new proggie, and just keep a clean system. The less I install, the better.