🚀 go-pugleaf

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/

SmokinJoe <smoknjoe@hotmail.com> wrote:

<<snip>>
> 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.

8-)

> They are well aware that not everyone reads License Agreements, in fact
they
> depend on it.  

Indeed.  Several antivirus sites have pages up about this,
presumably because of many tech-support calls...

> ...  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

It does not install any software to your machine at all,
*apart from* a copy of the installer which is set to run at
each startup so as to ensure that you have not disabled
the "advertising".

> 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/

I doubt that will help, but those of you in the US may find
complaining to the BBB useful.


-- 
Nick FitzGerald