Saturday, June 11, 2016

Sammobile.com: ♦ Unfair Treatment & Security Risks ♦

Greetings,

As you all know, if you are not a premium member of sammobile.com, you are limited to slow download speeds (Approx. 15 kB/Sec
Non-Premium Members) which is fair: I'm not paying, I can wait the long download hours!!!

However,
I just noticed that sammobile.com want to push ads to regular users as well. Not only they limit you to slow download speed, but also they FORCE you to watch ads if you want to download a firmware:
Quote:

If you wish to use our regular download links, please make sure you are not using any ad blocker (in case you are, simply whitelist SamMobile from your ad blocker's settings). Our apologies for the inconvenience.
:mad: :mad:

As a security practitioner, ads are the new ways of pushing Malwares to infect users. Now this is not fair:
If I'm not paying, I accept the slow download speed
If you want to push ads to me and possibly infect my machine (since they can't control ads sources), then at least don't limit my download speed!!!

I'm truly disappointed, and I hope you are as well. I will download the firmwares from other sources or use virtual environment to download them from sammobile.com then just delete that VM. I hope others will collaborate and upload the firmwares somewhere else for everyone to download and stand against this unfair and risky practice by sammobile.com


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Greetings,

As you all know, if you are not a premium member of sammobile.com, you are limited to slow download speeds (Approx. 15 kB/Sec
Non-Premium Members) which is fair: I'm not paying, I can wait the long download hours!!!

However,
I just noticed that sammobile.com want to push ads to regular users as well. Not only they limit you to slow download speed, but also they FORCE you to watch ads if you want to download a firmware:
Quote:

If you wish to use our regular download links, please make sure you are not using any ad blocker (in case you are, simply whitelist SamMobile from your ad blocker's settings). Our apologies for the inconvenience.
:mad: :mad:

As a security practitioner, ads are the new ways of pushing Malwares to infect users. Now this is not fair:
If I'm not paying, I accept the slow download speed
If you want to push ads to me and possibly infect my machine (since they can't control ads sources), then at least don't limit my download speed!!!

I'm truly disappointed, and I hope you are as well. I will download the firmwares from other sources or use virtual environment to download them from sammobile.com then just delete that VM. I hope others will collaborate and upload the firmwares somewhere else for everyone to download and stand against this unfair and risky practice by sammobile.com


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