Home > General > Affiliate Marketing Forum

Microsoft update that will affect PPV & Toolbars/Downloads (7)

04-09-2014 08:00 AM #1 rob_gryn (Member)
Microsoft update that will affect PPV & Toolbars/Downloads

Starting July 1st, PPV networks will start seeing a continuing drop in their traffic. The reason? It will become easy for users to uninstall all Adware ie. the toolbars which generate pops and other ads.

For those of you promoting downloads/toolbars, I recommend contacting your advertisers to see what their plan is. It'll be interesting to see how PPV networks plan to adjust to the changes.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/arch...-approach.aspx

04-09-2014 04:42 PM #2 davidwikes81 (Member)

They are not able to block malware. How can we trust them to block these illegal adware?

04-11-2014 09:13 PM #3 stackman (Administrator)

If it works it's going to be a HUGE blow to a couple toolbar demanding networks ..and affiliates. I doubt it'll have that big of an impact.

06-05-2014 04:24 PM #4 wiseguy (Member)

Many of the adware owners use 50onRed and other similar ad providers that have these features already included.

And some adware "features" are hidden and don't have annoying dhtml type ads that need to be closed, etc, as the article talks about - "features" such as banner replacement.

I would think most of the legit ones have a clear way to uninstall.

I don't think it'll be too bad for most of the well known ones. I think it'll hurt the rogue ones, though.

06-07-2014 05:14 AM #5 arjun (Member)

It'd be a shame because this vertical has been a great way for pubs to make money for years.

As innovative(ish) as Microsoft can be, the good(ish) people in the adware bidnizz will figure out an alternative in small matter of time.

I never really thought the ppv game was in jeopardy of becoming a cat and mouse game to be honest

06-07-2014 05:31 AM #6 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

Most of the install guys aren't installing plugin/toolbars anymore. They're installing things at the same level or lower level then the browser. Chromes changes drove people to do this 6 months ago.

02-16-2015 07:58 PM #7 adwareroi (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by Smaxor View Post
Most of the install guys aren't installing plugin/toolbars anymore. They're installing things at the same level or lower level then the browser. Chromes changes drove people to do this 6 months ago.
This. I had to recreate the AdwareROI system to be a network layer injection adware platform exactly because of the chrome policy changes. Before it was browser extensions. Having your browser extension and thus business on the whim of some google change or some "abuse report" is just too risky for my blood.

Home > General > Affiliate Marketing Forum