Comments on: Notorious ad hijacker spreads to more media, retail sites

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:37:38 +0000

Attorney Ken Basin works in Los Angeles – not Louisiana.

By: cas127

cas127 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:26:38 +0000

Dictating to their users exactly what they may or may not put on their *own* personal computer is the logical terminus of Facebook’s walled garden strategy.

Alleged “deceptive downloading” would be bad (I would like to see some actual, you know, evidence, first…not complaints from former MSM oligopolists) but I can imagine more than a few legitimate reasons why users would voluntarily and happily download this or similar products.

If FB/MSM don’t like it…go behind a paywall and get most of your revenue from circulation – you have *zero* right to try and control my computer (exactly what you accuse Sambreel of doing).

By: joe shmo

joe shmo — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:30:07 +0000

and is no longer with the company. are they supposed to base all future positions on what their early employees did. damn you for having me defend fb with that illogical, irrelevant attack.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:45:00 +0000

Looks like these guys are in a lot of trouble —

http://launchticker.com/story/jason-reading-about-a-company-called-sambreel-holdings-that-makes-toolbars-apps

By: Jamie Poitra

Jamie Poitra — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:50:13 +0000

Tora, sorry for the difficulty. And thank you for letting us know it was a problem. I’ve just made a change that should fix it going forward.

By: Jeff John Roberts

Jeff John Roberts — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:30 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Tora. I’m sorry you’re frustrated.. I’ll ask our dev team why it redirects this way.. In the meantime, you can always zoom in for a better look.

By: Tora

Tora — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:04:47 +0000

You know what really is annoying? I click on these pictures to see a bigger example and it directs me to a page with 6 ads on it and notimage? wtf is with that?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:08:03 +0000

The two big issues here:
1) Lack of clear disclosure to users that this Adware will insert ads everywhere. Instead, these consumers simply think NYTimes or Facebook has a horrible user experience (too many ads, lots of pixels, crappy ads in some cases and slow page load times).
2) This inventory is represented to buyers on RTB platforms as being on NYTimes and NOT “Sambreel software injecting ads on NYTimes”. So buyers are deceived too. Many would presumably agree they don’t want to buy NYTimes inventory through someone doing this, yet they have no way to distinguish between the two.

By: Seiche

Seiche — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:36:59 +0000

Really…?

Maybe he got sick of liviing in the welfare -warfare state where parasites live off the wealth that he created.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:38:35 +0000

Do you know who the biggest distributor of Sambreel products is? It’s CNET.COM — yes, the website which built a reputation on providing clean software for windows users! I discovered this today when I downloaded software from CNET — the CNET “download manager” asked me to install Yontoo “Buzzdock”. I guess CBS Interactive has decided that CNET is on its last legs and it’s time to extract as much revenue as possible out of what remains of its reputation…..