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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. And.... people won't care by SeraphimXI · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People really don't care about their products being "certified". Go out to the store and buy any usb wifi adapter you can find. In the installation guy it tells you to make sure that you hit "continue anyway" when your computer warns you the drivers aren't certified. I don't think not wanting to hit continue anyway is a valid reason for returning your new adapter.

  2. Re:Submitter is a link spammer, does /. care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No you're not the only one. I posted a reply earlier this week that basically said the same thing. I think this must be one of ScuttleMonkey's buddies or something. I got modded down as offtopic, because for some reason everyone wants to look the other way.
     
    This is obviously becoming a problem and represents what I consider to be a breach of ScuttleMonkey's journalistic integrity.