explorer destroyer

Google is paying 1$ for every user you convince to use firefox instead of internet explorer. Shouldn't libervis participate in this?

http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/

Ah, unfortunately this firefox refferal program is currently available only to US publishers and since I am from Croatia (thus making libervis.com "based" in Croatia) we can't have that yet..

But Google says they are hoping to expand this to international publishers as well, so there.

In the meantime, feel free to comment on this and say if we should really participate (given most of Libervis visitors are Firefox users anyway) or at which level should this ad be set (from 1 to 3) where level 1 is least "aggresive" and level 3 doesn't let you access the site in IE.

Cheers
Daniel

I agree, level 3 wouldn't be good.
And think about those who are forced to use IE (internet cafe, work...)

This now became available internationally so the doors are open to implementing it on this site too. I'm just not sure anymore if that's such a good idea mainly because we could turn off some people and maybe do more damage than good..

So what do you think?

Btw, I at least added a normal ad in that "sponsored links" block on the left.

Btw2: This is cool http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/

Cheers
Daniel

Well... This message was sent from firefox 1.5 For some reason it gave me a firefox without google toolbar. To be sure libervis gets its money, I installed google toolbar trough the same link.

For some reason all fonts in the menus of firefox (not on webpages) are huge... gotta find a way to fix that.

Level 0 it is.

That's an interesting setup, but it does push the security on a bit higher level.

Well, that could be a dollar more. Thanks.

Yes, I've tried it on other sites (since I am forbidden to click my own) and it does lead me to googlebar download which is although understandable (since it's one reason why google is doing it, to promote it's bar, not just Firefox), unfortunate..

However, the positive side to it is that IE users should be led to a full Firefox download link and then if they don't like googlebar they can just remove it (honestly it's nothing special, takes too much room there ).
Another positive is that it might bring in a dollar or two more and help very bad stats with google lately (I've been earning nothing for some time and only Google knows why or so I hope).

I really don't know why Google wouldn't make it's googlebar and other of it's software Free. What do they gain from it being sort of proprietary freeware? Nothing IMO. Google *should* free it.

Thanks
Daniel

edit -> preferences -> content -> fonts & colors -> advanced -> display resolution -> system setting -> ok -> close -> restart firefox

(bumped this thread as this is related)

It seems Google's AdSense on Firefox has also done something nagative to free software. I actually know someone who was tricked into clicking the AdSense Firefox link by a site disguised as a porn/dating site (which only has a message like "your browser version is too low, please click here to update to the latest version of Firefox and come back again") , and had a bad impression on FF because of this (because he still didn't see the porn he wanted after installing Firefox, and he thought^H^H^H^H^H^H^H is still thinking Firefox developers are officially doing something like this) .

There are also some kinds of Malware/viruses which will add a popup to IE when viewing any pages (yes... all of them used security holes of IE) which links to a page with an AdSense Firefox link, which actually leads some newbies think that "Firefox is malware/virus".

All these are made by people who just want to get some money from Google and absolutely not free software supporters, and these are actually harmful enough. Too bad it seems Google isn't quite aware of the issue, as I can still see many things like these.

By not giving money, we can make sure those who are spreading Firefox are with a pure intent. But things could become very nasty when there are monetary reasons, and those who are running Firefox AdSense are no longer purely supporters of Firefox.

When I e-mailed them a long time ago, I only got a reply like "Thanks for contacting us, your suggestions are forwarded to our professionals" and nothing more.