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Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners?

Posted by simoniker on from the yodeling dept.

prostoalex writes "Yahoo's new browser toolbar is advertised to clean out adware and spyware from the user's PC and from the sound of it is a good tool to rely on. Not so, says eWeek, whose Matt Hicks notices that Yahoo excludes by default two popular adware/spyware applications - Claria (ex-Gator) and WhenU.com - Claria has commercial bonding with Yahoo! Inc."

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  1. Re:This is not a first by Audity · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Really, this is a game of blury definitions...

    I think Google's Software Principles would be a good place to start. I mean, we can just ban any software that doesn't meet these principles. Granted, things like WhenU would probably still be alowed (I havn't used it myself, so I don't really know), but from a standars point of view, Google's really has given us a good point to work from.