Comments on: MediaFire: controlling your browser?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:19:03 +0000

You all do know that there are stand-alone programs dedicated to automating the download process from these sites, right? With the best of them, you can feed them a bunch of assorted links and they will handle the waiting, the captchas, will download from multiple services at once, etc.

Look up J-Downloader.

By: Irate Pirate

Irate Pirate — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:03:10 +0000

I’m with Eric. Are they going to also sue Mozilla and other browser makers for tabbed browsing? Because I don’t sit through the wait period, not when I can surf other sites while I wait. Thanks to MediaFire I now know about SkipScreen and will give it a try.

By: EE

EE — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:55:49 +0000

I second that Eric. I installed it right after I read the story.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:09:23 +0000

Thanks MediaFire! Without all the press attention, I would have never heard of SkipScreen. I’ll try it out next chance I get.

And if SkipScreen has ads, what does that matter? I’ll be browsing on a different tab anyway and won’t see them.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:30:12 +0000

This is the same idiotic reasoning (or lack thereof) that is behind the claims that using Adblock Plus is somehow stealing revenue from site owners.

By: Gerbil

Gerbil — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:06:49 +0000

Mediafire doesn’t make you wait and gives you the link immediately. Instead of “skipping” the waiting like Skipscreen says it does on its website, its really just replacing the ads with its own ads. Seems kind of blackhat to me.