LimeWire doesn’t use Cydoor
p2pnet.net News:- The controversy over Sprnova successor eXeem’s business deal with Cydoor continues to gather momentum.
The new eXeem p2p beta application comes bundled with Cydoor’s banner software which stores images on users’ computers and sends click info back to the company.
This angers some former Suprnova devotees and p2p users alike.
Check out the Cydsoor FAQ and you see this:
Q: I found ‘Cydoor technologies ad-system’ in my computer, which programs could it have come from?
A: Most likely you have installed one of the following Adwares: KaZaA, NetAnts, LimeWire, Babylon, iMesh or other application.”
Prefacing his remarks with the observation that apps such as Cydoor probably aren’t as invasive as some people believe, LimeWire coo Greg Bildson told p2pnet he once used Cydoor, but dropped it a couple of years ago in keeping with his company’s continuing policy of offering only a squeaky clean p2p program.
“P2p software companies need to get over bundling these kinds of software,” he says. “To actually make money for the software company, they have to start intruding on security and privacy and things like that and I just don’t think it’s worth it.
“LimeWire Pro is a positive example of how you can use a shareware model to make money as a software developer without using bundled software.
“The bundled software out there is giving a bad name to the industry.”
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controversy – The eXeem thread, p2pnet, January 24, 2005
January 24th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
This article, like most other stuff on P2Pnet.net is BS. How can you write a document bashing apps like Cydoor when the very pasge it shows up on has:
* 4 ads from Google (who is the mother of “tracking users”) – including one from “Mp3sharing.us/Kazaa-Lite” that’s charging users for a ripped off kazaa client
* A morpheus ad (an applicationk that is indeed full of crapware)
* 2 limewire ads
* a bearhare ad
* a blubster ad
* A an ad about ads from p2pnet.net
* A T-Shirt ad
Are you guys for real??? All of these ads are stored on my harddrive (thanks to the IE cache), and when I click on them, who gets notified? p2pnet.net of courese.
And what’s the difference between the Cydoor ads and the ones on MSN Messengeer or AIM or Yahoo????
January 24th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
— Are you guys for real??? All of these ads are stored on my harddrive (thanks to the IE cache), and when I click on them, who gets notified? p2pnet.net of courese —
The only people who get that info are the advertisers. We don’t see any of it, nor do we want to.
p2pnet isn’t an entrepreneurial site. As we say on the mission page here, http://www.p2pnet.net/about.html, p2pnet is about sharing information, not selling it.
But we couldn’t survive without the income from the ads which, believe me, doesn’t by any means cover costs. If you want more on the subject, go here: http://p2pnet.net/story/2620
Cheers!
January 24th, 2005 at 11:55 pm
You? The Advertisers? What’s the difference? Why do you think a user feels better knowing some “mysterious advertiser” gets the info and not you??
I fail to see the difference between placing ads on an application, the cydoor way, and putting them on a website. The “cydoor” stores files on disk argument is lame. All the ads on from your website are now on my disk.
So, help me out. What’s the difference between what you’re doing and what an application like Messenger or iMesh?
January 25th, 2005 at 12:23 am
From what I see about this site it is mainly an information site.
Unless you live a another planet you should know that having a website costs money, and to get money from people is kinda impossible because most of them are like you: complaining about the ads, complaining about any costs at all, and even complaining about the way the html protocol works(yup mate , every pages are stored on your HD).
Now about the crapware there exists tons and tons of softwares to get rid of them and if you still think you’re not safe you can simply get a ghost of your fresh windows/linux/whatever install and put it back every once in a while.
Yes there are ads about products on this site, there may even be some unwanted cookies . But then again freewill(you know that right?) gives me the right to use firefox instead of IE, remove all the cookies after each browsing, scan for viruses, scan for spyware, stay away from the programs I know are installing spywares on my computer and danse a polka. Or do nothing about some ads on a site.
And by doing nothing, I don’t know how they get paid, but if they do just by showing them, I just helped an interesting site to stay online, if they don’t get paid well then I am sorry the ads you are showing are of no interest to me, but I won’t complain about it I don’t call the channel each time I see that bloody hip hop macIgetpeoplefatdonald’s ad on TV, and it’s worse: it’s stored in my brain!
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I like to read articles from your site continue tour good job have a nice day!
January 25th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
And how is this different than Cydoor?
I’m not saying Cydoor or advertising on websites is bad.
I’m saying that sites that contain advertising should not bash applications that choose to show advertising via cydoor.
It is hypocritical.