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Article #380Re: GoHip Please read
From: Jerry Cargile
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
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Thanks for the warning. Jerry C SmokinJoe wrote: > > The Gohip video player represents itself as a pretty basic plug-in for your > browser. They tout it as a "Free Video Browser Enhancement." It is only if > you read the license agreement or download the software that you find the > true nature of the software. The license agreement informs you the > installation will do three things as follows: > > 1. Changes your default homepage to the GoHip website. > 2. Changes your default search engine to the GoHip search engine. > 3. Your signature line will be modified to promote the Free Video Update. > > What the license agreement does not tell you is that it is not going to be > as simple as changing your default homepage in your browser back to what you > prefer. The same can be said of changing your default search engine. Most > importantly it does not mention that this is accomplished by modifying your > Windows registry and cannot be removed without modifying the registry. The > vast majority of computer users are not capable of doing this. > > When I contacted GoHip's customer service, I was informed with attitude, > "...apparently you did not read it, (the license agreement) because it > explains to you exactly what the software is and what settings on your > computer will be changed if you accept the agreement. In the future, we > recommend that you read License Agreements, to be sure that you are getting > what you want." > > As of 2/20/00 deja.com shows 171 posts to newsgroups regarding GoHip, not > one of these posts were positive. If the administrators of this site think > they are making friends I would say they are severely disillusioned. > > They are well aware that not everyone reads License Agreements, in fact they > depend on it. IMHO this program does nothing to enhance your browser's > video as the name would imply. It is nothing but a self-serving ploy to > increase the traffic to the GoHip website. I urge anyone reading this to > avoid their website and downloading their software. I have removed their > software from my machine and changed the signature line added to my correspo > ndence as you see below. > ----------------------------------------------------- > DO NOT!!!!!!! Click here for Free Video!! > http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcd68,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd68,public X-Google-Thread: f569d,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf569d,public X-Google-Thread: 110c12,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid110c12,public X-Google-Thread: f77fd,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf77fd,public X-Google-Thread: 103552,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid103552,public X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: f7623,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7623,public X-Google-Thread: 1131fc,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid1131fc,public From: Jerry Cargile <jecar@home.com> Subject: Re: GoHip Please read Date: 2000/02/20 Message-ID: <38B013C5.64632C23@home.com> X-Deja-AN: 587569313 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <HfUr4.5201$tw.130815@nnrp1.ptd.net> X-Accept-Language: en,tr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.il.home.com 951063482 24.4.165.174 (Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:18:02 PST) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:18:02 PST Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.netscape.buggy-products,alt.online-service.microsoft,alt.windows98,canb.general,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.multimedia,microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.browser