vBulletin 3.8.0 Released

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

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

Your AdSense client ID is viewable anytime you use AdSense code no matter if you insall it through a mod, through vB or by hacking the template its self. What's the problem with an admin tool collecting data you already publish to the world for use in publishing it back to the world? An AdSense ID is hardly useful to anyone but the account holder.

[veenuisthebest]

The feature is currently in its very basic stage, ofcourse meant for newbies, so after testing it I disabled vbulletin access from my adense account as I am more than happy editing Ad templates myself.

Strange thing was that even after disabling access, my adsense pub-id was still showing as associated in vbulletin members area. I opened a support ticket and thanks to the staff, they removed it in 5 minutes, saying that at this time it can only be done manually at their end.

[Golzarion]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

If you have information regarding vulnerabilities in the default vBulletin software, then please address this in a support ticket.

Posting on the forums "there is everywhere a big security risk in the vb-script" does not get anything solved if there is a real issue (which i doubt), it only will make others nervous for no reason.

Exactly the same happened to me before! When I was using vb latest version 3.7.3 ( in that time ) just I was told to open ticket ... The vb support and vbulletin moderators insist on " There is no security bug on vBulletin default !! "

After that I found the security bug and report it .....Now I see the same sentences as above ...

One more thing vbulletin.com/org never used 3.7.2 or 3.7.3 ..3.7.5 versions !

Originally Posted by 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.

Please take a look at this matter . Collecting your customer private data because of new features on 3.8 version make the customers confidence on vBulletin weak ...

Thinking about this tow thing ( denying the bugs + asking unnecessary data ) is not good for us as customers...

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hello Marco ,

As your post makes it clear you know a lot of information about this adsense option , can you please kindly respond to http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...&postcount=189

i can answer you on both situations in your reply there...

a: even if IB claim they have no way to use that information at their own profit, they do. they have a deal with Google to release this engine on vBulletin... the deal is simple: "we release an integration, you help us spread the word" ... if ANY IB guy will say the opposite, i will have to spread the word myself that they lie -- for one reason, All of Google DEALS are made the same way, i know about it, i dealth with Google a lot of times on vBlog, Wordpress and some other scripts.

b: they announce it's a deal with Google to have an integration, it's indicated in the announcement. Why in hell would they work with the guys at Google if the script itself is a 3 lines script that was released on vb.org about 3 years ago ?!... they have to make commercial agreements. Jelsoft never copied a hack for no reason.

[puertoblack2003]

well i applied for the hell of it and upon registering it did ask about the account details.allowing vb to access to access code and performance..see for yourself.





I just dont like the idea that i have to give them a percentage when the price of vb to renew went up or the purchase....

good link:

thanks Puerto, this shows up that the script is doing what i told from the minute ...

you have to know how to block these ads revenues though... any noob would not even have an idea he can change that...

they provide this solution for noobs, and they are proud of it... sure, because real coders know how it works

[puertoblack2003]

lol..i noticed it and fixed it:up:

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I just dont like the idea that i have to give them a percentage when the price of vb to renew went up or the purchase....

Did you look at the percentage? We take 0.0% percent of the revenue you generate. However if you generate money in the first 180 days, then Google pays us a fee. That is all we get out of it.

By the way, any website owner can implement the same thing on their site using the Adsense API. It isn't a special deal between Google and vBulletin.

it's not a special deal, but i don't see why it was added "hiddenly" to the latest version, as there was already a dozen of similar solutions. Jelsoft added it to save time for newbies who do know nothing about coding... so you cheat on their back... funny fact now...