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:said by TexasGuy :Is spyware any application that sends statistics of marketing purposes or only applications that secretly do that?
Does it count if an application in question truthfully informs you that data is being collected and how?
Where is that border line where an application becomes a spyware?
Only applications that do it without your consent or awareness.
If the application informs you what it's doing and it does exactly that and you consented to it then it should not be considered spyware in my opinion.
Once the application is doing something without your knowledge or consent, I consider it spyware.
What if the real description is buried deep in the EULA and no sain person would would read the crap attentively though in a perfect world they should.
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