Rival's new venture

[Casinofoorumi]

Would you care to elaborate how exactly these two sites rivalpowered.com (Rival casino software) and rivalgaming.com (Arcade&Puzzle games site) are connected? It's kinda confusing.

Edit: Nevermind. Got a PM from Guard Dog. Thanks

[michael26a]

Have a look:

RivalGaming


If you start the download, you get a permission request.

It has you agree to receive ads, popups, popunders etc and wants to optimize all your browsers for this.

It's kind of like adware with permission in exchange for being able to play some games.

Sounds really good, I might download it tonight. Nothing like a bit of adware and potentially malicious code to improve your computers performance haha

[dominique]

I doubt this is malicious, there is a lot of money to be made with adware.

Millions of Facebook users play games, including lots of casino games. And they surf the web, and they may end up on your site.

But when they do, and you think your hard work will pay off, they won't even see your site. They will see a popup covering your site, and a casino Rival Gaming wants them to go to will be displayed.

If you have millions of potential customers for us affs being diverted in such a way, we will make nothing and Rival Gaming will rake it in.

That is the point of what they are doing.

Malicious software would bring them nothing, but these pops are super profitable - on your back.

[lots0]

I would report it FB and let them figure it out. My bet is they pull the app.
FB is only going to do something if people report it.

Reporting a violation - Facebook Help Centre | Facebook

[WCD Admin]

I just noticed they are running a banner with Google on many of my sites.

If you run Google Adwords on any of your sites make sure to block this URL. (shouldn't we also remove the links to them from this thread?)

[dominique]

They are advertising VERY heavily. They are running more facebook ads than any other place.

[Guard Dog]

They are advertising VERY heavily. They are running more facebook ads than any other place.

Yeah... why not? I mean, they have all of our commissions from all of our players to fund the advertising.

[SuperiorShare]

This is not the same Rival.