Beware the Evil Battlefront Tool Bar
 

Especially true if you try the ToW 2 demo.

"As if having played the first Theatre of War wasn't enough of a deterrent for trying the sequel, publisher Battlefront is doing their best to drive away potential customers by quietly bundling a browser hijacking advertising scheme with the demo and, presumably, the full game.

Peter "Calistas", who posts as TinyPirate, writes on his blog about the Battlefront.com toolbar the demo tries to install. He notes that the toolbar interjects itself any time you try to do a Google search.

Instead of heading off to Google to pull results your search is routed through a server owned by Israeli company Conduit. Conduit is the company behind this browser bar and it seems they love to return your Google's results, but populated with their ads (and not Google's, I note)! Lucky you! So, instead of getting straight Google results from their search bar you get Google results plus about ten spammy ads at the top of the search list. No doubt this is how Conduit makes money - along with all of their sponsored weather and shopping links.

This is the sort of thing that ensures a small publisher will stay small."

Link:

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/03/h...dvertising.php


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