Class Action Filed Against Bonzi Software

An anonymous reader writes: "A nationwide class action lawsuit was filed on November 25, 2002, in the Superior Court of Spokane County against Bonzi Software, Inc. Bonzi is among the world's most prolific issuers of internet advertising banners. Bonzi's website has been ranked as one of the most frequently visited websites in the world. In case you are wondering Bonzi is the company responsible for those irritating popup ads which say things like 'Your computer is broadcasting an internet IP Address...' and 'Your internet connection is not optimized ...'" The attacking lawyers provide some samples of the ads they say are misleading.

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Re:Its honestly about time.

[Per Wigren]

The pornindustry shys away from it because it is proven ineffective! It makes people annoyed, remember their name and associate it with false advertising, and they will never sign up! The same thing with (mail/usenet) spam. Instead the pornindustry has started to spam the searchengines.. They register 200 domainnames and have 200 different frontpages to the same site..
And they have also found that the very most effective way to get people to sign up is to post high quality free pictures without fake links and popups on all of the 1000s "thumbnail gallery post"s, together with a link to their signup-page.
That is why you don't see as much porn-banners/popups/spam as there used to be a few years ago...