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Inside an Adware Company

Posted by michael on from the ethically-challenged dept.

Haikster writes "Brad Stone of Newsweek wrote a great article exposing DirectRevenue which is actually a combination of the old Dash guys with IPInsight, abetterinternet, offeroptimizer and blackstonemedia and the others... it's a bit lengthy but a great read."

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  1. They just use standard FOSS philosphophy by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    Information wants to be free. Your information.

  2. Where's the part with the burning and the fires? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article is missing a critical piece...

    where enraged citizens storm the building, set it on fire, seize the funds from the bank accounts and distribute to orphanages everywhere and leave the Adware staff tied up to lightpoles with a note for the police.

    --
    94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
  3. Dark. And noisy. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > He says his company is committed to "transparency" and is making it easier for users to uninstall its software.

    When pressed, he defined "easy" as "sorta like dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of feral cats."

    And you don't wanna know what "transparent" looked like.

  4. I'm a newb by ltbarcly · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do you install adware in debian? I tried apt-get install virus, apt-get install adware, apt-get install malware, nothing works. man, linux is crap