A site is distributing your software bundled with ADWARE
. Do you really allow this?http://www.uberdownloads.com/14575/deta ... layer.html
VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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A site is distributing your software bundled with ADWARE . Do you really allow this?
http://www.uberdownloads.com/14575/deta ... layer.html
A site is distributing your software bundled with ADWARE
. Do you really allow this?http://www.uberdownloads.com/14575/deta ... layer.html
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
Only official versions are on videolan.org
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Another: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
on here http://www.videolan.pro/NL/index.php video lan software is SOLD, plus adware! shame!
who can protest against this?
who can protest against this?
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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
Yes, and are not linked in any way to us.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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
Do they provide the source code for their adware, or are they violating the GPL?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.
Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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
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.
Providing logs, messages, configuration info (VLC, OS, Hardware) and a clear explanation of the issue always helps the problem solvers help you, even if they don't end up solving the issue. Just think what you would need if you were solving someone else's problem. Additional: Always looking for eager and capable MacOS X developers to join the VLC team - for more information see here.
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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??
can you actually report this to google??
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Re: VLC Media Player bundled with ADWARE
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.
-- 3breadt (aka altglass)
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