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EFF, Gator Against Other Pop-ups?
The Register reports that Gator has filed suit against Extended Stay America Inc to ensure that Extended cannot block its ads. Gator's argument is that consumers should be able to decide what they see on the Web and not Web site owners. It said in its suit that Extended Stay America has no right to prevent computer users from choosing to get its software and "viewing separate works, comprising advertising on that user's own computer screen, even when other works share the screen." Meanwhile, the EFF is considering supporting Gator's case, saying the issue is about who controls a computer when people go on-line.
The author of a website or the surfer? Who decides what a surfer should see? That is a bogus question, as Gator is niether of these. Gator is a third party. No one chooses to install gator, they get tricked into taking it. A god damn pop-up window comes up, and they click to make it go away, and gator installs. If the EFF supports gator, then they are obviously just a criminal syndicate, and I will be really disillusioned. I thought they were fighting the good fight.
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First off this isnt flame bait because not many people are going to argue gators side on this message board. That spyware company gets on cour computer and breeds its own nasy wasteland in your memory. If it wasnt for lavasoft's adaware those SOB's might have a chance. But they dont... not on my linux box atleast.