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Note from Zango President Daniel Todd: Despite our publishing numerous and ongoing notice and consent audits where 3rd parties review our industry leading installation practices and uninstall procedures, some folks on the Internet want to continue to provide misinformation about our products and company. If you have had a bad experience with Zango personally, please let me know or if you currently need assistance please visit our customer support page here and someone from our customer support team will respond to you within 24 hours. If you still have problems after that or would like to provide other feedback, please contact me directly at dant@zango.com. Thank you]-->


Reads like a company puff piece. "Over time Zango will grow..." (emphasis added) is a clear example. "Lastly, we have 75,000 - 100,000 people every day..." is clearly in the corporate voice. All links are to Zango official sites. Excessive use of non-encyclopeic images. No subsection on criticism, even though it is mentioned in passing (as "confusion"). Contains facts needing citation that I suspect were pulled from company internal sources. GRBerry 18:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Never mind. Reverting to last NPOV version by Deltabeignet of 7 days ago. GRBerry 18:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Alleged Child Porn Browser

YapBrowser

Since this wasn't mention any where, I'd like to mention the allegations presented here.

http://doxdesk.com/updates/2006.html#u20060416

http://www.donotreply.com/index.php/2006/05/11/warner-brothers-child-porn/

This needs to be added. Nbbs 01:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technically Legal?

The 2002-2005 section currently states that: "Many other affiliates notified users only via the end user licence agreement EULA; this resulted in millions more of technically legal but still essentially non-consensual installs." What is the source for stating that these installs are legal? As far as I know, the law is not entirely settled here; a remote EULA link that attempts to conceal the install information from the average user may still qualify as a "deceptive marketing practice" and therefore, would still be illegal. I'd like some feedback; if someone has evidence that their practices were legal, I'll hold off, but absent that I would like to change it to "arguable legal" or "of questionable legality etc.

Lciaccio 18:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added POVCheck tag

I have added the POVCheck tag because of the following phrases:

  • "focused on building a Content economy" - sounds like an ad
  • "have a current focus on using time shifted advertising to support the long tail of content available on the Internet" - sounds like an ad
  • "non-consensual" - This is a term often used by Zango/180 themselves
  • "Zango can be removed by most leading Anti-Virus software like Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus" - endorsement of specific product —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.110.186.170 (talk • contribs).

I suspect this version is a corporate puff-piece. But it is not as flagrantly and maliciously so as the last version that I reverted was. NPOV could definitely be improved upon. The last bullet mentioned above is not part of the recent corporate change, it has been around a bit. GRBerry 14:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added POV section

I just added the POV section tag. Everything below it is a new contribution that looks to be ad-cruft from the company. (And where did the POV check flag the prior user added go?...) GRBerry 02:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

  • I've reverted this entirely. We don't really need the whole privacy policy here - just bits of it if necessary. Maybe an external link would be nice. The M00finman added the policy and removed the NPOV notice. According to M00finman, it was a translation done by him (it?). — Jeremy | Talk 11:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

With the merger of hotbar and 180solutions I suggest what this page be merged in to the 180solutions page with appropriate renaming.

  • Zango is the brand name for 180solutions.
  • 180solutions is renaming itself to Zango.
  • Multiple pages are redundant.

Bdelisle 20:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Their Office Building

Office Building: Zango
Office Building: Zango

[edit] Locking?

Admins, I think this page should be locked to unregistered users. Most of the vandalism I'm seeing in the history are unregistered edits. EDIT: The article, not the talk page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sljaxon (talk • contribs) 04:58, August 3, 2006.

  • First, sign your comment. Second, I can understand the vandals... Its good will too (if you've ever got spyware you will understand). ^^ Anyhow, blocking this page from vandals is unneccisary, as they fix themselfs quick enough. Or if they don't, its like you fixing Zango on your computer. ^^ -- 68.228.33.74 06:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Sljaxon, please see the policy on page protection. — JeremyTalk 06:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent revert

[1] - think it was a decent revert? It seems that the person's edits that I reverted could possibly have been added to make the article more neutral, but they really read as being more apologetic than anything. Especially considering that Google and eBay don't create software that's flagged by every anti-spyware program worth its salt as being "potentially unwanted" (besides Google Desktop, though that's an entirely different conversation). -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 00:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] myspace adult content viewer.

Perhaps someone has seen this? From what I've read, when people install the "myspace adult content viewer," it installs the zango ad-ware.

[edit] MacOS

Why is the MacOS screenshot necessary? It seems a waste of space. Sljaxon 14:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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