madman
05-26-2005, 11:16 AM
how the is non-us people supposed to be able to download anything from the damn site?
you either have to remove the ing sign-up offers or you have to make offers that can be gotten by non-us people.
3 our of 4 offers requires an us address to work... and you require two offers to accept the ing sign up!
well.. i'll only say one thing.. that ing sucks! this site.. i'll get my driver somewhere else... hope the site ing burn in hell!
Constance
05-26-2005, 10:46 PM
Huh ? ... didn't have to sign up for any offer to download drivers, you just need to register an account *for free and without any obligation* to download the drivers you need, if available... then, once you have selected a driver for download, you only have to like check a box and copy the letters you see on a picture to prove you're not some kind of robot downloading the entire website contents.
BigMac
06-06-2005, 07:36 PM
To register one has to let driverguide send him some spam from at least two different sites. And the "no thanks" link doesn't work, you HAVE to select that spam. And those sites obviously require that you live in USA (they don't understand that someone can not belong to a "state"). This sucks, I can't get my drivers.
Constance
06-06-2005, 11:00 PM
From 1st registration step page :
Your privacy is important, and we are committed to protecting it. Read our privacy policy (http://www.driverguide.com/privacy.htm). You will absolutely not receive unsolicited e-mail as a result of signing up!
From their Privacy policy page (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=doc&page=home__docs__privacy) :
2. Third Parties Collecting Email Addresses
The following third party companies have been authorized to collect email addresses on DriverGuide.com:
Netcreations, Inc.
http://www.PostMasterDirect.com
379 West Broadway, Suite 202
New York, NY 10012
Link to their privacy policy: http://www.postmasterdirect.com/privacy.html
Netcreations collects email addresses on a voluntary (opt-in) basis in order to provide targeted email offers and discounts to our users who wish to receive them. Users who have signed up may unsubscribe by going to http://ntcr.us/unsub.
[...]
10. Reporting Abuse
To report email abuse, please use our Feedback Form
Or by email at: abuse@DriverGuide.com or postmaster@DriverGuide.com
In addition, I can certify that I did never receive spams from DriverGuide or its affiliates ; neither did I have to subscribe to any offer to have the ability to download stuff from this site - and I did download some - ; those who did receive spam probably wrote their e-mails somewhere on the forum for people to reply directly to them : then any robot might have seen it on the driverguide forums and added it to some spamming database...