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InKane

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Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« on: August 11, 2009, 01:31:16 pm »
So far I haven't had any luck with any offer that requires you to download anything. (Bejewled 2, Billeo Toolbar, etc.)

Have these worked for anyone else?

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 01:48:24 pm »
no, ive tried them all, they did not credit, maybe it doesnt report the download in firefox? :angry7:

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 05:26:32 pm »
Could be. I've always used Firefox, I'm kind of hesitant to use IE because of its security issues. Maybe I'll give Opera a try and see if it makes a difference.

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 10:58:39 pm »
Bejewled didn't work for me, but Billeo did. Haha, so weirdly inconsistent.

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2009, 02:12:19 am »
These are seriously hit or miss.
They often don't work, and thus I never bother with them.

The browser doesn't really matter as long as you download it with whatever is set up as your default browser.
This only matters when they send a string to a url(very uncommon). Most of the time the browser doesn't matter at all.

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2009, 10:21:33 am »
Personally, any time someone or something wants to download something to my machine, that's a huge red flag.  I'd rather just not take the chance.  Things are too hard to remove once they make a home on your machine or phone or pda...

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2009, 11:37:06 am »
i have problems with these type of offers, as well :/, not just with FC, but with other sites i used to use too.

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2009, 06:44:38 pm »
Personally, any time someone or something wants to download something to my machine, that's a huge red flag.  I'd rather just not take the chance.  Things are too hard to remove once they make a home on your machine or phone or pda...
All of the software I've seen so far is perfectly safe. I just have no use for the program, and know it's about a 50/50 shot it won't credit.

My concern is more what the thing may do to my registry, than worries about spyware.

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Re: Any luck with offers requiring downloads?
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2009, 07:05:45 pm »
So far I haven't had any luck with any offer that requires you to download anything. (Bejewled 2, Billeo Toolbar, etc.)

Have these worked for anyone else?

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