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| Let the morons fund the internet..... If you can't figure out how to uninstall spyware..... THANK YOU! You're ignorance helps pay the bills so the rest of us can continue getting nice software for free.
There is no reason to legislate this. Its a common sense issue. Then again, I don't think there should be "do not cut your fingers off" warnings on packages of steak knives, or "not for consumption" warnings on butane, but there are.
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| said by Camelot One:
There is no reason to legislate this. Its a common sense issue. Then again, I don't think there should be "do not cut your fingers off" warnings on packages of steak knives, or "not for consumption" warnings on butane, but there are.
I don't think you can really make that comparison. Obviously, when you buy a package of steak knives, you know that its purpose is to cut things, and that if you are not careful, your fingers could be cut off as well. But spyware is different; it often comes bundled with the "real" software (like Kazaa) that users think they are buying/downloading. So I think this legislation would at least help users to understand that they may be getting more than they bargained for when installing a new app.
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| reply to Camelot One
Just because someone isn't computer savy as to know how to remove spyware doesn't give these companies any right to invade his privacy. Most of the time if you uninstall the spyware the application your downloaded won't work.
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| As long as it states up front exactly what will be installed, and what it will do, I have no problem with it. The problem is that a lot of the time, they try to "sneak" it in. For example, I was installing a game for my son (which was not free, and I paid for, I might add), and at the end of the install, it asked me if I wanted to install some vaguely-described component that appeared to by spyware. Of course, I chose "no." Funny thing, that same component that I did NOT install was caught by the firewall trying to access the internet once I rebooted. Needless to say, I was NOT happy.
On the other side of the coin, I was downloading some free screensavers that came bundled with spyware. It stated up front that it would be installed, and gave me the option to back out. It didn't stop me from having the firewall deny access to or immediately uninstalling the spyware, but it did keep me from complaining. | |
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