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"They have to have a different angle on this; they're a YC company." Why do you think they would have a different angle if they are a YC company?
http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
"Microsoft isn't so benevolent now. Now when one thinks of what Microsoft does to users, all the verbs that come to mind begin with F."
This is why it's easy to cast YC's funding of a crapware company as a deliberate choice.
I can speak quite a bit about this "industry": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day. They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous. They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any details as soon as you ask any question. More than half of them are "the biggest in the world" (sic). They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actu…
You may be right about the industry as a whole, but I'm betting you're wrong about this particular instance based on what I know about PG and YC. When I was reading the original TC article, I was thinking that there is actually an incredible opportunity here to create a legitimate ad network that would allow desktop developers to monetize similarly to how it's done on the web - to basically become the DoubleClick of…
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The analogy is apt enough. There's something you want whether it be 100 free wallpapers or a blowjob. Providing you with such a thing required a certain level of "access" which can be used for evil.
Still no. One thing destroys your life (or significantly alters it), the other installs some crap on your computer. You can always format and reinstall a computer.
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Googling for "vlc", "vlc download", or "vlc player", the top 3-4 results are all to videolan.org. Ads may distort this for some users, though...
Yes unfortunately unless you have adbock installed the "first" results in a google search for "vlc" are typical for the (adware, spammy) sites.
Why not? PG is about to make killing on AirBnB and co-founder is a well-known spammer from top-100 FBI list [1] that used our tax money to send his spam, and AirBnB been known for spam practices contacting people from Craigslist [2] to crank-start their startup with empty database. Further, AFAIK his SocialCam is worth tons of money as well, mostly thanks to Facebook overspamming practices [3] Truly surprised PG is n…
Ironically enough, IIRC PG was one of pioneers of spam filtering.
Irony? Or just people being willing to do anything for money. There are worse motivations.
FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.
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Forgive me for asking a possibly stupid question, but google is failing me: what is a "CPA offer"?
CPA = "Cost Per Action". Think of Cost Per Click advertising, except that instead of the publisher being paid when someone clicks on the ad, they're paid when the user takes a specific action (eg installing software, signing up for a newsletter, subscribing to a magazine etc).
This is the reason why I don't understand that people say that Linux is for "technical" users while Windows is for regular consumers. In Linux it's easier to install something that in Windows. E.g. to install a CD to MP3 rip program, in Archlinux all you do is: # Search for some mp3 ripper program pacman -Ss mp3 | grep rip # Install one of them from the list that looked ok from the description pacman -S ripperx In Wi…
If I wanted to rip an Audio CD into an MP3 on Windows I would insert the CD, which causes a popup dialog that offers to run the built-in media player that includes MP3 ripping.
> Although the company claims it is all “non-personally identifiable data”, according to its website this surprisingly includes not only IP but the globally unique MAC addresses. Enough with the scare tactics. A Mac adress is not, in any way, globally unique.
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You can install whatever 3rd party software you want on a Mac, side by side with software from the App Store. Note that this article is about PCs, not mobile. You seem to be conflating the two.
Name Google's PC. The article may be about PCs, but the thread definitely devolved to talking about Android and iOS, and it's already been conceded that iOS doesn't allow third party apps. If I didn't know better, I might think you were trying to steer criticism away from Apple . . .