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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to BF69
Re: Drum roll to stupidity
It reports the user's web activity data to Google. That's spyware according to some definitions.
It is done with permission, and is removable, and some people therefore exclude it from the "spyware" category, because deception or hard-to-remove is part of their criteria for spyware.
But there is no legal rule forcing anyone to use one definition rather than the other. Both are reasonable. Therefore Google would have no grounds for a suit. Google actually has to insist on a more lenient definition in order to deny that its toolbar is spyware. |
