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Any good modder knows damn well that adf.ly is a really shitty way to make money, not to mention it's technically forcing users to reward the modder, even if they don't like the mod, if no alternate download link is available.

Most smart modders realize that the real money is in actual donations. Firstly, with adf.ly, it makes users far less likely to donate to you, because most users believe they're somehow relatively significantly helping the modder to make money through clicking on their adf.ly links.
This is why I don't support modders who use adf.ly -only links to their mod downloads. That type usually gives us a ******** story about how they need a little extra money.
Anyone using adf.ly but not donations makes a steady income and knows they don't need a damn penny more, especially if they make a shitty mod.

I genuinely think adf.ly should be banned from being used these forums, like they finally did within the Bukkit community. It's a real pain in the ass, thankfully I found DeAdf.ly.

Quote from Scratchman_Apoo

i think its ten thousand clicks for the person who posts the thing to get 5 dollers so you know..

With my moderate experience with adf.ly, I know that varies greatly. First of all it's 1000 clicks not 10000, and second of all, I sometimes got around 2-3 per k and sometimes more like 7-8 per k.

I really dislike the ad.fly because it just doesn't work. I click the link and it "can't reach server" Can someone help me fix this?

It's not that big of a deal. If someones put work into it, time and effort, why shouldn't they be rewarded a bit? Especially if it's a FREE download etc.
If it's a mod, program, software, or anything really, they've probably spent hours on coding it; what's five seconds compared to their hours of work?

Why would you? They receive very little money from it, that it's not worth it. Some say "that's their main income source!" Well that's sad. Hope they're comfy with their 20 dollars a week IF THAT.

i cant use it it says enable cookies when i have them enabled!

I dislike it, it give you the most random ads ever.

I don't like adfly at all. I get that it is nice to help the person who made the work, if it is their work at all, but the site itself with its deceptive links is just too irritating. I don't see it much thankfully because I don't click on links from the people who would end up using adfly anyway though.

It's annoying and intrusive.

Adf.ly is basically a malicious website in my case, because of all of those damn ads! But what I really use it for is when people sometime use it for Minecraft mods, with caution of-course, but I have gotten a virus from it (believe it or believe it), I now did my research on virus and how to spot them, and remove them. I was dumb back then.

If it's used in the right hands, it's not as malicious, if the person using it is pretty smart, it can do them good out there. Of course, there's always idiot's/masterminds that'll try to use it for bad things.

I don't have 1 opinion on adf.ly, but you wanted to know how I thought about it, here it is. I'd be suprised if you read this far.

adf.ly is fine. its easy to just ignore the little ad and it gives the creators of whatever download a little extra pay so they don't have to make the initial product cost money to others.

Its mediafire which is gay. It opened a porn ad on my desktop when I was downloading a mod once. Stupidest thing ever.

Quote from zbozman

adf.ly is fine. its easy to just ignore the little ad and it gives the creators of whatever download a little extra pay so they don't have to make the initial product cost money to others.

Its mediafire which is gay. It opened a porn ad on my desktop when I was downloading a mod once. Stupidest thing ever.

... Did you click on the porn ad?

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