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Re: Yahoo Gives Adware a Pass I would just like to applaud the efforts of Ben and Dave is as industry watchdogs in putting all the pieces together and to others for helping to spread the information.
I have learned in my own past experiences that sometimes companies become so large that communication becomes fuzzy. While one dept is working hard to generate public good-will other Dept's in the same company are screwing them trying to build their bottom line numbers. I do believe bringing this information to the public is a service to the company and its stockholders before they let things get out of hand.
We saw the positive results at Google when they clamped down on WhenU and hopefully we'll see Yahoo respond in kind.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Bill |
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| It made me sick to read this thread, I just wanted to throw my machine away and forget about the web, then I thought why should these**^^*^** win.
I did notice that in their application they [according to many people who come here, spywareinfo and spyware warriors and other places for help]have lied in stating that people agree to their programme in return for ADS.
Go here to read, every time I try to copy I lock up
»www.hoovers.com/free/co/secdoc.xhtml?i..
When will it get through these advertisers heads that we don't want their ads rammed down our throats.
It would be nice to know what these free programmes are and how much these multi million companies paid them. Oh I forgot these are their own programmes. oh well. |
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said by lincolngreen:
It made me sick to read this thread, I just wanted to throw my machine away and forget about the web, then I thought why should these**^^*^** win.
Couldn't have said it any better than that!
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First we had sneaky Gator, now we got sneaky Yahoo. Perhaps sneaky PestPatrol too?
According to this article:
»www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1605589,00.asp
(The distinction between spyware and adware is determined by the vendor, PestPatrol).:(
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Since GAIN(Gator) is classified as adware by PestPatrol, GAIN is NOT INCLUDED in the scan by Yahoo.
- Here is my challenge to PestPatrol:
If you got the balls, change your classification of GAIN from adware to spyware!!! Thereby forcing all GAIN(gator) stuff to be found on peoples computers.
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