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Is the Giveaway of the Day Feed Service any good now?

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Started 7 years ago by xprt007
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xprt007
Member

Hi there
A few days ago, I saw some article somewhere online saying GOTD had been excluded from being listed as a site providing free Giveaways because of the new policy to virtually force one to submit their email address or share the GOTD link on Social media to get the "free" download link. I posted this article in this forum, but I noted it is blocked from view unless one is probably logged in.

I run some sites which have been using the "Giveaway of the Day Feed Service" for a couple of years, which is a great thing.
Today, I wanted to download "PhotoDonut Creative Edition" from one of them & was re-directed to this GOTD site & given no choice but to either share this on Facebook or submit an email to send the download link.

This I think renders the Feed Service useless, unless for some reason it was a mistake or just limited to today's download, or may be the result of a technical problem?

One could otherwise do without the feed service and as well just advertize the GOTD direct link.

So is there a change in policy on this, which would be quite unfortunate?

Regards

Posted 7 years ago #
ChrisS
Administrator

The XML file associated with the feed service only shows download links to the Giveaway page, and not to downloadable files, back to December 17th where the file ends. It looks like a change in the TOS, which would indeed be unfortunate but it's also not unexpected.

Posted 7 years ago #
xprt007
Member

Hi there

It does not seem to have been a temporary error regarding the replacement of the direct download link in the XML file output with a link to GOTD article.
I am writing GOTD via the contact form to see what they say.
Quite astonishing my original other article on GOTD offer has had the text content deleted.
I think one could have as well just added a comment that explains the GOTD position.

Regards

Posted 7 years ago #

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