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Re: "Our sleazy affiliates did it..."
Mike Healan of SpywareInfo had a hypothetical future
scenario story posted on his site a while back should the
advertisers/marketers/adware companies get their way:
every single waking moment of your life would be
surrounded by advertising you couldn't ignore
nor turn off. Kind of like in Minority Report, but much,
much worse. And if you dared to even interfere or stop
those intrusive ads, you'd get arrested and hauled off
to prison.
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Bobby_Peru
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| said by Shuten Doji:
... should the advertisers/marketers/adware companies get their way:
every single waking moment of your life would be surrounded by advertising you couldn't ignore nor turn off.... [Emphasis added]
Exactly, but what possible theory of maximization would allow one to fail to exploit all of those non-waking moments as well!  Add an additional "revenue stream" by requiring payment for it, and perhaps greater payment for any slight 'pause in the deliverance' ("non-published" listings...) from it. To one degree or another, it's coming, if we let it.
The sad fact is that there are people in "PR" (and other) organizations that demonstrate again and again that they will do anything for money/power, including conducting mass propaganda campaigns designed to facilitate the death and destruction that is War. A tanker-load of crapware would hardly give them a pause.
"Following the money" to identify the benefactors that _could_ be swayed, and bringing pressure upon them to cease might be one course of action.
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