Happyrat
Google Is Your Best Friend
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join:2002-07-01
Disneyland | Call it crapware then...
A duck is a duck is a duck... |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| said by Happyrat  :A duck is a duck is a duck... If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck ***news flash*** It is a duck! |
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AtomicZero
join:2004-11-24
West Palm Beach, FL
| reply to Happyrat
said by Happyrat :A duck is a duck is a duck... agreed, but you gotta love those Ad guys, always coming up with the slick wording...um, no this is not spyware you just have a case of MILD adware. I understand that the developers of freeware and all that goes under that title of free needs to generate revenue somehow, all I say is make sure you let the end users know what they are installing. Let us make the choice to screw up our PCs or not. |
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DownLow
Nope...I Got Nothing
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join:2001-04-25
Long Island
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A piece of advice to Cydoor...
Don't just "urge" your partners to state upfront that their application is freeware but is supported by advertising" - REQUIRE IT. If you customers are guilty...so are you!
Unwanted software is just that..unwanted!
Quack!!
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Mac Bridger
Beat It Again Bill
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join:2001-01-11
Smithton, PA
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 ·Cricket Broadband
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They said it themselves
said by cydoor's threatening letter:
From time to time the partner application connects to Cydoor's servers in order to report aggregated performance records such as which ads were displayed, how many impressions they received, and which, if any, did the user click on.
Wow, I think you just admitted that it is spyware. Quit complaining and take your medicine.
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
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join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL
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Re: Call it crapware then...
Asking to stop coining Cydoor spyware?
They may have to ask the whole friggin internet!
Look at Google:
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cy···e+Search
Thats funny! |
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Spore Cloud
I H8 Computers
join:2001-09-09
Burleson, TX | reply to Mac Bridger
Re: They said it themselves
I was thinking the same thing. That is TOTALLY an admission of spying. Now of course that isint as bad as keeping track of someones browsing habits but it is still spying no matter how its put. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to Mac Bridger
The letter is also somewhat contradicting...
There is no installation, explicit or otherwise, of any Cydoor component on the user’s computer.
After installation, the partner application manages the various advertisements and their performance.
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2tr
@cable.rogers |  LOL! |
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Jason
Col. Panic
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join:2001-01-24
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Re: Call it crapware then...
Hmmm..
Tracks various usage statistics, then relays them back to the mothership?
No pop-up window asking you if you want that info going out? No user interface to make it verbose? No uninstaller?
Sound a hell of a lot like spying to me.
Actually, it sounds more like sh*tware to me.
Oof.
-Jason
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA | You're missing a letter.
It's shitware.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to Happyrat
Pleeeeeease, pretty please with sugar on top, stop telling people the truth about us. . .
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