I am sure most of you can't be bothered or are scared to install Zango, thinking it will fuck up your pc. But if you are concerned at all about this issue, which will no doubt get a lot worse especially if Zango are white listed next month, you really should install it, at least on an old pc as seeing is believing.
I've seen about 10 or 12 Adult companies either buying popups on Zango or allowing their affiliates to do so and thereby stealing sales by cookie/url replacement. Let's ignore for the moment what appears in the toolbar tabs and search results as I posted in an earlier thread.
Most of the Adult companies buying popups I've never or rarely heard of. The bigger companies I've noticed seem to be AFF/Cams, SexSearch, iFriends and Webcams.com.
SexSearch and Webcams.com have been totally silent on the issue at least as far as I've noticed, apparently hoping to avoid the spotlight.
The issue here by the way is not
"if" their popups are on Zango, it's
why. Anyone can verify the "if" part within a few minutes after installing Zango.
The only two companies I am really interested in here are AFF/Cams and iFriends since I currently send traffic to both of them.
AFF/Cams has admitted publicly that they currently use Zango. I don't agree with their reasoning but I do know where they stand "officially".
iFriends doesn't post on boards apparently so it's hard to get an "official" word from them. The closest I've seen is an email that they sent to an Affiliate that he was kind enough to post on gfy that basically stated that they did try an Adware company a few years ago but don't do anything like that anymore and don't approve of that type of marketing etc.
May I present exhibit one below. This is a screenshot taken a couple days ago that shows a Zango iFriends popup over iFriends site.
I have seen several varieties of these as I'm sure everyone who has played with Zango has. Some go to alternate landing pages like sizzlingcams, incredicams and some go to Clickcash affilate sites.
These iFriends Zango popups happen when I visit my own sites that have links to ifriends.com and cams.com on the pages as well as when just going to ifriends.com as the screenshot depicts.
I have sent the info to Clickcash and they say they are investigating it. I have also given Will the info to pass on to them. This has been going on since I first installed Zango so I would assume it has been occurring for some time before that yet these same accounts are still active. There are four or five accounts in total I have noticed where my cookie gets swapped out for theirs.
Here's the funny part. Most of the time, indeed it was like five times in a row yesterday, the same Clickcash account appears. The name of the account is "180SOLUTIONS" Does that name sound familiar?
It should as Zango = 180Solutions.
So according to my two braincells worth of deductive reasoning combined with the online detective course I just completed I must assume at least one of the following possibilities is true:
1) iFriends buys popups on Zango.
2) Zango is a Clickcash affiliate.
3) A rogue Clickcash affiliate buys ads on Zango and decided to name his account this to be able to track sales easily.
Ok lets start with number 3)
A rogue affiliate sending traffic from an unaccepted source would be shut down immediately when iFriends found out about it. They would of course be shut down within hours if they made an account name describing their unacceptable traffic source.
I know they monitor new account names because I tried to make one a few years ago called "younggirls" or something similiar and they shut it down the same day saying that the word "young" implied underage and to choose another name.
So yeah if I made an account name "ISPAMAIM" or whatever I wouldn't last long.
No affiliate would name his account giving away his traffic source especially if he knew it was unacceptable and was just hoping to get a few checks before they found out.
So that leaves the most likely explanation being that iFriends buys popups on Zango and/or allows their affiliates to do so as I would be seeing different names if they were cancelling them and new rogue affiliates were popping up.
I certainly wouldn't put it past Zango to be a Clickcash affiliate. After all they monetize and remonetize every inch of their site, stealing and selling back the traffic over and over. But how can that be as iFriends has said that they don't approve of this type of marketing?
No judgements here, just facts concerning Zango. No insults to iFriends, AFF, Lars, Will or anyone else. I still send traffic to both companies for now. These are my deductions based on what I see.
Download Zango if you haven't already to confirm this.
I for one would be more than willing to participate in a class action suit as long as it was against ALL Sponsors using Zango not just one or two.
I have heard however that legal action by Sponsors against Zango for allowing competitors to bid on their sites and trademarked names would be more likely to succeed so lets hope something gets moving on that idea.