Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   Things seem to be back to normal now.

   The team offers a direct download link once again !

   Posted 9 years ago #
2. 

   emperor
   Member

   Hi Robert, please could you put up a screenshot of what you see for the direct link for today's giveaway? I don't see a direct link on the pop-up using either Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. I am accessing the site from the UK.
   Note that the game giveaways have not so far suffered from this inconvenience and degradation of service.

   Posted 9 years ago #
3. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   Here you are Emperor.

   

   Strange thing really..
   I was able to get the direct link using Firefox... but not with IE or Opera!!

   PS Don't tell anyone :)

   Posted 9 years ago #
4. 

   emperor
   Member

   Thanks Robert, but how did you get to that point? I understood from your post that there was a link on the pop-up that appears when you click on the link on the main screen, but this is not the pop-up window. Does Firefox automatically bypass the pop-up and give you a direct link? I don't have Firefox installed so wouldn't see the window that you have shown.

   Posted 9 years ago #
5. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   Firefox doesn't seem to load their script anymore when you click on "download File Uneraser 2.1".
   (so back to basics and no pop-up)
   For the time being that is...

   Posted 9 years ago #
6. 

   emperor
   Member

   Thanks for the responses, Robert, but I still have the pop-up appearing. As a test I installed Firefox. I still get the pop-up and nothing resembling your window. Is there something within Firefox that you have set that could bypass the pop-up?

   Posted 9 years ago #
7. 

   krypteller
   Member

   Re jgf "I do not email anyone for a download link,..."

   If you use a 33Mail-address, you will remain anonymous. You can use also the daily link on my blog. I will place it about fifteen minutes after the giveaway becomes available.

   In order to be able to post here, Giveawayoftheday asks your mail address, so why is it a problem to use it to get the download link from the same site?

   But of course you are right: we are customers of both Giveawayoftheday and the offerers of the software. I have bought tens of personal licences of giveaways. This site has at least two serious competitors: Shareware on Sale and BitsduJour. They are sure to lose serious visitors/customers if they keep on making downloading difficult.

   Posted 9 years ago #
8. 

   Suze
   Member

   "This site has at least two serious competitors: Shareware on Sale and BitsduJour."

   And a third one is http://www.topsoftbargains.com/product-category/giveaways/.

   Posted 9 years ago #
9. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   If you're not feeling up to launch Facebook for every single program ,here is another option:
   In Firefox:
   Install the Greasemonkey add-on
   Create a user script(or Google for it-thanks,nanashi) to get the direct download link
   That's it.Done.

   Or as I wrote earlier:
   Go to:pcwelt.de/giveawayoftheday (German)
   -scroll down to Kostenloze Vollversion laden ;)

   Posted 9 years ago #
10. 

    jgf
    Member

    krypteller

    "If you use a 33Mail-address, you will remain anonymous. You can use also the daily link on my blog. I will place it about fifteen minutes after the giveaway becomes available."

    Anonymity isn't the issue, simplicity is. The vast majority of software I've downloaded from here either registers itself during installation or includes the reg number in the readme. So, that is the norm; then there are those few who require me to go to their site and leave my email so they can send me the link, this reply may be in a couple of minutes, a couple of hours, or never.

    But my comment was directed to the internet in general. To be analogous, I frequent many game sites, many of which maintain extensive file libraries. I can scroll through those lists and, with one click, download whatever I want. Then I find that one file with no link but a notice to email the author for the download ...and my first thought is "You narcissistic a@@. What is so special, what is so wondrous, about YOUR file that it cannot be included with the hundreds, if not thousands, of other files here and we must take time to email you personally begging for the link?"

    "In order to be able to post here, Giveawayoftheday asks your mail address, so why is it a problem to use it to get the download link from the same site?"

    I do not mind registering at sites where i will be a participating member, but I see no reason to register somewhere for a one-shot interaction, never to return. Especially since there is never an option to "unregister". To be analogous again, recently someone posted a link to a mod for one of my favorite racing sims, a mod only available on one site - a German race sim site. Since I neither read nor speak German this site is useless to me, so I see no reason I must register just to download one file and leave.

    Posted 9 years ago #
11. 

    ChrisS
    Administrator

    In order to be able to post here, Giveawayoftheday asks your mail address, so why is it a problem to use it to get the download link from the same site?

    
    Because they want the Facebook or Twitter post. If they made it easy to circumvent the desired objective with your forum email address then more people will circumvent the desired objective. The direct link option has been gone for some time so, presumably, they get a sufficient ratio of FacePlants, Tweets and email requests to those abandoning the page.

    Posted 9 years ago #
12. 

    jgf
    Member

    "If they made it easy to circumvent the desired objective with your forum email address then more people will circumvent the desired objective."

    If enough people want to circumvent something it is obvious that something isn't popular and perhaps wasn't such a good idea.

    Posted 9 years ago #
13. 

    michel-62
    Member

    Sory, I write in French.
    La procédure d'obtenir le lien de téléchargement par message ne fonctionne pas. Cela fait trois fois que je fait la procédure par mail, et je n'ai jamais de réponse.
    Je ne fréquente pas les réseaux sociaux tels que FB et TW.

    En fait, il faut faire un clic gauche pour " Enregistrer le lien", ouvrir un nouvel onglet, copier l'adresse du lien, valider ; la même page s'affiche, mais en cliquant sur le figuratif vert, le téléchargement débute.

    Posted 9 years ago #
14. 

    ChesterT
    Member

    Merci pour la manip,
    sinon le lien pcwelt mais ça ne marche pas tous les jours

    Posted 9 years ago #
15. 

    kalmly
    Member

    So - is it my lack of social media accounts that blocks me posting? I've been checking in on GOTD every day for more than 10 years - now I can't post on the Giveaway page?

    Posted 9 years ago #
16. 

    Kody
    Member

    Very dissapointed by the latest "improvement" :
    I don't (and never will) use ANY "social" network,
    but to download a giveaway, I am pushed to use Facebook !
    again:
    VEERY dissapointed !

    Those were the days . . .
    when GAOTD was user friendly
    :-(((

    I'm afraidm I'll stop visiting GAOTD, if the stuff will continue work this way.

    P.S.
    hope they read their forums.

    P.S.2
    IMHO, they should politely ask to (eventually) support them on social networks
    (as before),
    but not to force their users to

    Posted 9 years ago #
17. 

    emperor
    Member

    I have not downloaded many programs recently, but for the most recent I have not had to use Facebook or supply an e-mail address. I don't get that annoying pop-up that there used to be, just going straight to the download. It looks as though some comments are being listened to (at least I hope that is the case and this isn't just a glitch in their system). This is good news, for me at least, and if comments are being acted upon then I would like to say thank you for that.

    Also, the blog page about this change was frozen on 28 comments for several weeks, and I had a comment awaiting moderation from 9th October. This has now been moderated and there are 40+ comments. Good news again.

    Now, we just need to have the powers that be change the look of the page ...

    Posted 9 years ago #

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