VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

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VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby brianrr » 17 Feb 2009 13:35

This is just to help you avoid bad reputation.

A site is distributing your software bundled with ADWARE :evil: . Do you really allow this?

http://www.uberdownloads.com/14575/deta ... layer.html

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Feb 2009 13:36

Only official versions are on videolan.org
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Another: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby janneman » 05 May 2009 10:32

on here http://www.videolan.pro/NL/index.php video lan software is SOLD, plus adware! shame!

who can protest against this?

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby nikola23 » 05 May 2009 23:05

Wow... they even have the audacity to link to the real videolan.org site under their support page...

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 May 2009 23:09

Yes, and are not linked in any way to us.
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby CloudStalker » 11 Jun 2009 12:09

Weird. Is there some sort of way to report sites like this so that they can be taken down? Here it is that they're using property of VideoLAN, pretending to be the official site, and providing their users with ADWARE all at the same time?! That's terrible.

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby stevedee3 » 11 Jun 2009 12:26

Weird. Is there some sort of way to report sites like this so that they can be taken down? Here it is that they're using property of VideoLAN, pretending to be the official site, and providing their users with ADWARE all at the same time?! That's terrible.
Do they provide the source code for their adware, or are they violating the GPL?

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby Ligr » 21 Jun 2009 16:08

Contacting the hoster of the website with a complaint usually does the trick, no?

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby ajmas » 22 Jun 2009 16:45

Another short term solution, which unfortunately requires work on the videolan.org side, is to detect the other site as referrer and put up a notice to the user. I believe this could be done with 'mod rewrite' in Apache. Then again considering how shady the other site is, they may just work around this.
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby schnorginator » 04 Jul 2009 00:39

And the actually make you send sms messages that cost 1.50 euros. you have to send 3 of them. I think it's a Dutch scam. Damn nazis are using VLC's good name to make moneys!

can you actually report this to google??

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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby 3breadt » 05 Jul 2009 10:33

The videolan.pro site seems now to offer VLC without adware, the download now link on their site now links to the official ircam.fr mirror.
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE

Postby wobblysauce » 08 Jan 2010 04:00

I found another site scamming VideoLAN :twisted:

http://dloadcentral.com/dlvlc/


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