Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily
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Chris
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Used to be amazing years ago now it serves no purpose
I ve been using the website for years and have watched it decline in popularity and quality the past few years The concept itself was good - a software company gives away their product through giveawayoftheday to the public for 24 hours Users are allowed to install the paid software for free during those 24 hours and keep it forever provided they don t have to re-install it The users get free paid software - the developers receive constructive feedback from the users in form of comments under the giveaway and giveawayoftheday receives ad revenue Ad revenue is no longer feasible the user comments went from constructive to abusive the quality and trustworthiness of software offered has declined severely the use forever until you have to re-install licenses have been mostly replaced with 3 or 6 month trial ones The appeal for both users and software publishers is no longer there Some of the software given away is very amateurish of concerning quality produced by rather shady looking companies entities Really makes you wonder whether you re not installing spyware along with it The new Android section offers many apps that are and have always been free misleadingly presenting them as paid It is surprising that the website is still around as it serves no useful purpose any more and it s very sad to see what it has become compared to what it once was with hundreds of comments and users engaging in discussions vs 0-3 comments on today s shovelware offers
Jack Smith
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Decline of what was a good website
They keep getting worse and worse Now none of the giveaways give you a serial because their site is broken and they delete your comments The games are already free from the makers website There is no giveaways on this site They give you limited shareware for 3 months They yell at you and blame you for their mistakes We pay their salary but watching tons of ads but they do not acknowledge this I am afraid they need to be shut down Last year has been really bad Boycott them so they cannot get free money from you Not even one good review of them here You also have to spam on your face book ads for their crapware so we do their advertising too
Alistair Nicholls
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Polite Comments Deleted
As the review below says polite negative comments get deleted I registered for a license key for software and it didn t arrive That s all I said
Erixson
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
anything goes
There is no QA for offered giveaways Pretty much about anything goes MG Office for example had about at least one year time to fix its false positive Still it s not fixed There is no such thing as we don t have time to fix this and that Especially after well over a year There is also the comment section which seems to be ghosted and appear only to those chosen by GOTD to which they allow them to be viewed Critique never was and never will be tolerated That s their right to do so Because it s their website of course I m not dependent on GOTD but sometimes I look what they have to offer Most of the time I actually buy the software because those giveaway licenses usually lasts only as long as you don t have to reinstall Windows
SMORGS
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Minus 5 Star rating
Minus 5 Star rating The Company is a Scam They don t want genuine feedback they delete your comments when they are not favourable and the software they offer is with equally unconscionable companies Should not be allowed to continue with deceptive behaviour
Eman Resu
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Promotion of copyright piracy
The site has been offering software from companies with questionable practices such as hidden company info and license termination well before the stated cutoff Most recently jan 26 2019 they had an offer for Issuhub Pro The Issuhub website blatantly promotes the uploading and sharing of copyrighted material Most of the comments complaining of this were deleted by giveawayoftheday com
Stefan
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Giveawayoftheday com is a scam
Giveawayoftheday com has become a dangerous scam website imo featuring free software containing spyware malware trojans viruses and more After downloading an e-book reader I used virustotal com to scan the file and found a trojan I normally scan all my downloads and have seen other suspicious files from Giveawayoftheday com in the past I used to think that GOTD were simply not checking the integrity of their free files but now I strongly believe they are complicit in spreading malware into the community Could they be receiving a benefit from malware ransomware I posted my concerns about the trojan virus on the Giveaway page only to discover my post was deleted soon after Why would an honest website delete a warning to others without checking the veracity of the claim After reading other posts about GOTD it has become clear to steer away from this scammer website I have since unsubscribed
client
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Used to be very useful
Used to be very usefulNow so many free offers are for a limited period only A lot of sub-standard software
Larry
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
A lot of offerings games are very
A lot of offerings games are very useful more than welcome but just give a polite negative comment it gets deleted Complain they deny it happens persevere you get in effect blacklisted are sent no more offerings Pity
gerrard
6730 reviews
N/A
8 months ago
Veyr shady site
Veyr shady site If you share your bad experience about any program who they promote you message will be deleted immediately Most givaeways are for completely useless optimization and registry cleaning chinese programs who most antivirus detect as PUP If install some of them will see that they are trying to connect to some IP addresses even if you disable automatic updates in the program In short - giveawayoftheday promote shady companies and I wouldn t use their software even if they pay for that Don t use their site