Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the keeping-things-clean dept.
peterfa writes "Sun and Google have teamed up and started a project called Stop Badware. This project aims to expose all the spyware and adware bundled in software and the companies that are responsible. While it's funded by Sun and Google, the research will be done by Oxford and Harvard."
How about...
by
doorbot.com
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· Score: 5, Insightful
How about also exposing the companies that pay for the information gathered by spyware/adware? In other words, the ones actually funding it...
/Didn't RTFA
Google profits from spyware
by
slashkitty
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Google has a reason to keep spyware around. They make millions from selling ad space on their search results and affiliates TO the adware companies. Do a search for "smiles", "screensavers" or "Spyware removal" and you'll see lots of ads for adware/spyware!
Google should do less evil by not accepting ads from these companies.
-- -- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
Slashdot Mirror
How about also exposing the companies that pay for the information gathered by spyware/adware? In other words, the ones actually funding it...
/Didn't RTFA
Google should do less evil by not accepting ads from these companies.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.