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Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by detst » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 6:28 PM UTC

xSwag wrote: post #18

dangrossman wrote: post #13

xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…

For some I can only see my comment when I'm logged in. Is it because it got flagged or something? Also: *your

If it was auto-killed, it's for something you did in the past. It will only be visible to users that are logged in with "showdead" enabled and you (presumably to make spammers and trolls think their comments are visible). But I can see this comment so maybe someone didn't like the other one and flagged it.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by biot » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #13

xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…

The CEO of LilyKade claims 30M installs, though that information may be outdated: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dru-mundorff/16/556/560

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by majani » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

adventureful wrote: post #5

bconway wrote: post #2

Isn't it disingenuous to say you have 100M users? That's like Apple saying they have 25 billion iPhone (SDK) users because people have downloaded that many apps. (Note: world population still ~7 billion.)

Extremely disingenuous. In fact it's a lot closer to flat out lying. The extension creators have 100 million users, not them. They have 7,000 users (developers). They're basically taking credit for all of the work done on all of the extensions and claiming all of the users accordingly

The worst part is, they could have said that they had 7k developers who in turn have 100m users, and we'd still be impressed. Instead they just smeared egg all over their own faces.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by msellout » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 6:54 PM UTC

xSwag wrote: post #18

dangrossman wrote: post #13

xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…

For some I can only see my comment when I'm logged in. Is it because it got flagged or something? Also: *your

Where did you get the count data?

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by mnemonicsloth » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

Internet Explorer = Retarded Kid in a Helmet.

Would it be acceptable to depict IE as a ditzy girl, a pigeon-chested homosexual, or a black student with a failing report card? No.

But for some reason, the image a glue-eating retard is fair game. Why?

(FWIW the helmet should signify autistic, not retarded, because because autistic children are the ones that tend to be self-injurious. And autistics' IQs are all over the place. But I don't think that cartoon is trying to say that Internet Explorer has trouble relating to people because it processes information very differently from the rest of us.)

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

xSwag wrote: post #18

dangrossman wrote: post #13

xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…

For some I can only see my comment when I'm logged in. Is it because it got flagged or something? Also: *your

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Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by dangrossman » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

detst wrote: post #21

xSwag wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some I can only see my comment when I'm logged in. Is it because it got flagged or something? Also: *your

If it was auto-killed, it's for something you did in the past. It will only be visible to users that are logged in with "showdead" enabled and you (presumably to make spammers and trolls think their comments are visible). But I can see this comment so maybe someone didn't like the other one and flagged it.

It's not for something he did in the past or this comment you're replying to would be dead as well. He's not hellbanned. It was probably just a duplicate form submission. When you double submit the comment form, the second copy of the comment is automatically killed, but on the poster's screen it looks like both comments are there. You delete the first one instead of the second, and you end up in this situation, with one [dead] copy of your comment.

@xSwag, I wanted to let you know about the [dead] comment directly, but couldn't find a way to contact you here or anywhere else you might use the same username. There's no e-mail/twitter/etc in your profile.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by xSwag » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 7:29 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #27

detst wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it was auto-killed, it's for something you did in the past. It will only be visible to users that are logged in with "showdead" enabled and you (presumably to make spammers and trolls think their comments are visible). But I can see this comment so maybe someone didn't like the other one and flagged it.

It's not for something he did in the past or this comment you're replying to would be dead as well. He's not hellbanned. It was probably just a duplicate form submission. When you double submit the comment form, the second copy of the comment is automatically killed, but on the poster's screen it looks like both comments are there. You delete the first one instead of the second, and you end up in this situation, with…

I was using nightly firefox build so that is probably why it submitted twice. I have updated my profile with my e-mail now. Thanks!

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by CubicleNinjas » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 7:50 PM UTC

valceder wrote: post #11

CubicleNinjas wrote: post #8

Very cool idea. Excited about the possibilities here! Wish there was more meat to this post though...nothing but the wireframe of what you did to get there.

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you like the idea of the Crossrider framework. To find out more about us take a look at our website: www.crossrider.com

Thanks – I appreciate the note.

Our team did check it out and toss it into our bag of tricks. It looks like a very cool idea that would be fun to build with.

Congrats again on the success.

Re: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

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Post by clockstrikesten » Mon, Jul 16, 2012, 8:07 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #13

xSwag made an interesting but auto-killed comment that implies most of these installs are from malware. Is there truth to that? > Oh wow that is really hilarious. The majority of application downloads from your network are worms, specifically the lilyjade worm (browser extension), which, once installed, spams peoples facebook to exploit pages where the extension is again installed and used for click-fraud. Funny how…

get on google and type X -> top suggested result Y:

CrossRider a -> "CrossRider adware"; CrossRider d -> "CrossRider delete"; CrossRider m -> "CrossRider malware"; CrossRider r -> "CrossRider removal"; CrossRider s -> "CrossRider spyware"; CrossRider u -> "CrossRider uninstall"; CrossRider v -> "CrossRider virus"; CrossRider w -> "CrossRider web apps virus"

Keyword summary: adware, delete, malware, removal, spyware, uninstall, virus, web apps virus