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  • Report:  #58222

Complaint Review: The Gator Corporation

The Gator Corporation ripoff deceptive company evil dirt bags Redwood City california

  • Reported By:
    cridersville Ohio
  • Submitted:
    Sat, May 24, 2003
  • Updated:
    Thu, June 26, 2003

This is a "DIRECT" quote from there website all it does is cause pop ups. "Gator featured in MediaPost.com
The Internet has voted, and Gator is the preferred advertiser. The targeting ability of Gator makes for more relevant advertising and has higher click through rates." this may be great for advertisers, and companys buying the advertisements, BUT!... and this is a goody.

The fine ppl at gator Corp,attach there "advertising" program to programs you download....like a virus. I belive this is very decieving and crooked, why would anyone want popups?...the program just eats up system resources, and causes you anger because when you run the program you wanted, gator is attached to it, and just makes pop ups, thats it, nothing else! Now who in there right mind would actually download The gator corp's program?

this is also a quote from there other home page
http://www.gatoradvertisinginformationnetwork.com/

"The Gator Corporation advertising programs can generate click-through rates 20 to 100 times higher than traditional banner ads, because through GAIN, advertisers can reach consumers across the Web, at exactly the right time in their buying cycle. And with over 35 million users and growing, The Gator Corporation can deliver messages through GAIN to consumers in real time while they view any site on the Web.

Most GAIN messages currently come in the form of "Pop-Up Windows" on top of or underneath other windows on your computer desktop."

This program is crap, and the goverment should not allow companies to attach there programs to something you want, theres no different if they attached a virus to it and u not knowing it!

D
cridersville, Ohio
U.S.A.

1 Updates & Rebuttals


Glenn

Lincoln,
Nebraska,
U.S.A.

Read the Download Agreement

#2Consumer Suggestion

Wed, June 25, 2003

Gator is very annoying, but it is legal because you agree to download it. Whenever you download a program, you have to accept the download agreement first. Most people don't actually read this agreement, they just accept it. For the downloads that bring gator along with them, the agreement includes a statement about Gator.

Anyone who says they receive Gator without knowing it is really saying that they did not read the download agreement.

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