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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. two words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    microsoft + claria

  2. going for FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    preview anyone?... nice miss-paste dude... :P

    1. Re:going for FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "mis-paste", dweeb, like MIStake, lolwtfbbq