vBulletin 3.8.0 Released

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by alehawk

its a shame what they are doing with the adsense thing.
Why people should send private information to vbulletin staff? to help then to earn more money from google?
They should have released the adsense feature for everyone and offer licence owners to sign up for google adsense but not coarse people by giving you the product if you sign up to adsense or provide vb staff with private info.

You are mistaken by the above. The google account-id is only used to generate the files needed so you can implement AdSense easy on your forum, so you can make money.

No private info is ever requested on vBulletin.com. We do not get access to your Google account.

PS Strange that this assumption has now been posted twice in this thread on vB.org, where it is not even asked once on the only place where a full answer can be given: in the release discussion thread at vBulletin.com.

[Shazz]

Features I would never use...

[alehawk]

Originally Posted by ragtek

You don't have to use this feature.
The ad location templates are still there, so you can use them.

Yes I know that and I am not going to use it, I'm only expressing myself.
Maybe the next release the will ask users for their bank account numbers and passwrods to integrate it to the forum.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please do not spread wild rumors that are not based on any facts.

[alehawk]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

You are mistaken by the above. The google account-id is only used to generate the files needed so you can implement AdSense easy on your forum, so you can make money.

No private info is ever requested on vBulletin.com. We do not get access to your Google account.

PS Strange that this assumption has now been posted twice in this thread on vB.org, where it is not even asked once on the only place where a full answer can be given: in the release discussion thread at vBulletin.com.

Come on, any google adsense user knows how to start a google ad campain. There are some mods that allows any user to add google banners to their forum and they dont ask for any data.
In my opinion no user data is needed to release a tool for placing google adsense ads.
Is only my opinion, it is something I want to say and regerdin the place where I wrote my complian, I also worte it in vbulletin.com.
Cya

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can have your own opinion wether this is a needed new feature or not. But it was added because of massive demand from maybe less experienced users.

What i do have a problem with is that you, without basing this on any fact, are posting that Jelsoft makes money out of your advertising instead of yourself, you are insinuating that we request information that would give us access to your google account, you are insinuating that we will request additional private and sensitive information like bank accounts and passwords. Unless you can base this on any facts, then please do not try to insinuate such things.

PS Could you link me to your post in the vB.com release discussion thread where you raise these question, i just quickly read the entire thread and could not find it.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by alehawk

Come on, any google adsense user knows how to start a google ad campain.

This is actually designed for the 10s of thousands of vBulletin customers who don't know anything about adsense or placing advertisements in a forum. This allows them to deploy ads in a few clicks with no hassles or configuration issue on their end.

As stated in your other thread and elsewhere, if you already have advertising or want more advanced options then this program and featureset is probably not for you. There are a wide range of people using vBulletin to power websites from advanced programmers who don't even look at manuals to people who did not even know what a web hosting company was before they started.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by alehawk

Why people should send private information to vbulletin staff? to help then to earn more money from google?

What private info exactly ?

Surely all they ask for is your adsense client id - which is freely viewable in the source of any page you have adsense adverts on.

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by Paul M

What private info exactly ?

adsense client ID, postal code, and last 5 digits of phone number.

[Paul M]

Hmm, you're right, I just looked ....

Dont understand why either of those is needed myself, surely all you need is the client id.

Oh well. Not something I will be using anyway, so it doesnt really matter to me.