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Distastful Advertising Continues: "Gatoring"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-i-taste-arsenic-in-the-water dept.

iforgotmyfirstlogon sent us a link to an article on CNet about Gatoring, a fabulous new advertising technique where advertising buy key words and pop up windows over competitors. The kicker is that this is a byproduct of a commonly installed activex plugin. And its only gonna get worse.

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  1. Re:Going to say this anyways by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    > This is obviously a flame, and I know I'm going to lose what meager karma points I have with this, but I'm going to say it anyways.

    Those who would sacrifice their freedom of speech for karma deserve neither freedom of speech nor karma.

    To pare a phrase.

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  2. How XP will (can) solve this problem - by sourcehunter · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    Microsoft could actually help here quite a bit - and they have good reason to.

    Anyone remember this article from a few days ago about WinXP blocking certain device drivers because of potential flaws based on crash data? I'm SURE that could be widended to include programs and OCXs. Here's what we need to do...

    1. Get Microsoft to expand their block list to include software too
    2. Have a bunch of people "Break" the OCX so it really fouls things up
    3. Have these people submit the crash info to Microsoft
    POOF! Microsoft's auto-update feature for XP blocks the software...

    Anyone know any XP core programers?

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