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Gator-style Overlay Ads Are Legal, Says Court
donutz writes "C|Net has the scoop: "A federal court has ruled that pop-up ads for rivals of U-Haul International, placed atop the moving company's own site by a third-party software application, are legal." In this case, it was ad serving company WhenU.com placing the ads, but this decision could have a big impact on the court cases that involve competitor Gator."
I think Gator, et al, are guilty of not being completely honest with users about what they're up to.
Gator puts everything on their website, and on GAIN. How much more honest do you want them to be?
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Just buffing up my Karma, dude. (and inviting a moderation war :)
Nowhere in the following does it say "We will replace ads with those from our subscribers at our discretion, and overlay ads from our subscribers on top of others' ads."
"GAIN occasionally displays various forms of pop up ads in a separate window on users' computer screens." On the front page of Gator. You even quoted it. Are you really that clueless? What do you expect them to do, make it blink and flash and play sound through the speakers? They tell you exactly what it does, and if you don't like it, don't use it.
It doesn't make them spyware, it's makes them adware. They pay a lot of software developers to work on their projects. Coming from a group of developers who constantly whine about not getting paid for their work, and replace ads on your own computer, you sound like pissed off 6 year olds.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Because I am not, and never will be interested in clicking on the fucking monkey, buying herbal viagra, or purchasing an X10 camera.
Because I hate exiting explorer, and having to spend the next 30 seconds closing dozens and dozens of popup windows.
Because I hate having to snake my mouse cursor through a forest of "mouse-over" ads to get to the little X without accidently travelling over a hair-trigger active window, and triggering a window cascade.
Because I hate trying to close an ad window, and realize a second too late that I have inadvertantly clicked on a fake image of a window contained inside a popup ad, thus sending me off to an advertising website.
Because I hate having to exit Netscape entirely because of a runaway window cascade.
Installing ad-blocking software has made the internet usable for me. I consider that a good thing.
Who's the crackhead who moderated this as Insightful?
This isn't just a "billing dispute." Google refuses to pay the money because they claim mentioning the ads on the site and telling people to click the products they're interested in seeing is in some way against their Terms and Conditions.
In just four days, over $100 was made via clickthroughs. Google's story changed from e-mail to e-mail. They just don't want to pay up, and they feared the long-term expense of such a successful ad system on Slackers Guild.
Telephone call to customer service? God, you're an idiot. How about actually reading the link? Good thing I'm here to keep you and your crackhead moderator friend in line.
"Sufferin' succotash."