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Consumer Friendly Downloads?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bigger-friendlier-corporations dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Yahoo and AOL will be offering a new anti-spyware initiative to begin next year. The new initiative will allow vendors to get their software "certified" as easy to remove and not containing spyware. From the article: "It creates market incentives that will change how consumers see software," said Doug Leeds, Yahoo's vice president for product justice. Backers of the initiative believe that consumers wouldn't benefit much from a system in which good products simply display seals of approval. "They are looking for us to do it for them," Leeds said."

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  1. Re:Recycled versign? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shure is hard to un-install all those Mac applications. ...Wait, wait, wait. I have to drag and drop?...

  2. Four words by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    What will it cost?

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  3. Re:And.... people won't care by oKtosiTe · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if Microsoft didn't test it, it has to be crap!

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    It will happen.
  4. For Great Product Justice by demastri · · Score: 5, Funny
    Doug Leeds, Yahoo's vice president for product justice.
    Move every zig. You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
  5. Re:Submitter is a link spammer, does /. care? by pv2b · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is obviously becoming a problem and represents what I consider to be a breach of ScuttleMonkey's journalistic integrity.


    Slashdot? Journalistic integrity?

    Pull the other one.
  6. Re:Who's looking for who to do it? by PhilHibbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, like Australia and New Zealand are relevant. Pfffft.