[3][4] Some companies, ranging from online retailers to auto manufacturers, have used Viewpoint Media Player as the graphics platform for interactive 3D tours of their products.
[5][6] Viewpoint Media Player is sometimes marked as adware[7] due to the program commonly being installed without user notification or intervention.
[8] If Viewpoint is removed whilst a program requiring it remains installed, it again re-installs silently without notifying the user.
The license agreement states that the software collects information about the user's interactions with advertisements, as well as the browser and operating system in use.
The privacy policy also states that the plug-in collects some browsing history by way of referrer information.