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Advertisers May Face Ridicule For Adware

Posted by Zonk on from the waking-up-to-reality dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A ZDNet article reports that the FTC may be gearing up to humiliate companies that advertise via adware." From the article: "The FTC would publicly announce and publish the name of a company that advertises using adware that installs itself surreptitiously on consumer PCs or using spyware, Leibowitz said. He would recommend publicly shaming advertisers to the other FTC commissioners if the adware problem doesn't decrease, he said."

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  1. Wet bus ticket by imoou · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, public shaming is as severe as hitting those offenders with a wet bus ticket or a tap on the knuckles.

    Wake me up when there's a public stoning.

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    1. Re:Wet bus ticket by Jambon · · Score: 5, Funny
      Wake me up when there's a public stoning.

      Dude, that would be awesome. However, man, I can't really see the DEA being chill with that. I mean, that would be a lot of weed.

    2. Re:Wet bus ticket by Amouth · · Score: 2, Funny

      In my home town the cops seized around 400lbs of weed on a boat.. reported in the news paper when and when they would be disposing of it by burnning it in the inconrator (which was down down)

      that whole damn city block was covered with people.. and it was a good day for the people on the west side.... (off shore wind :)

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    3. Re:Wet bus ticket by BTO · · Score: 0, Funny

      I call BS! The Romans never went to Mars.

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    4. Re:Wet bus ticket by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 2, Funny

      If public humiliation were a tonic for bad behavior, Tony Blair would be a stand-in for Mother Theresa.

      Now... Where did I put that comfy chair!

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    5. Re:Wet bus ticket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or a lot of coke in an instance I can recall. 734 lbs to be exact, ready for cutting to street strength, I mean the real stuff folks. It was picked up about 3am at a small building fire out in the forest north of Susanville CA, along with the 4 perps, hauled into town and bail set at $10 mill each.

      By 8:30 the next morning the CA DEA was onsite with papers to take possession of everything. They had the garbage bags in the evidence room in Sac by 11am, and had a new bail hearing setting bail at $50k each. They all 4 walked but the two americans were eventually picked up again, but they had to turn them loose because the evidence room couldn't produce the evidence according to the rumors I heard later.

      I don't recall the exact date, somewhere around 1981 I think, but the poundage has always been the answer to a trivia question in my memory.

      I'll let you all figure out where that 734 lbs of freshly made coke went, I'm sure it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

  2. whoa by MasterOfUniverse · · Score: 4, Funny

    FTC actually siding with the people, instead of corp america??? Whoa, looks like pigs can now free to fly..

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  3. Finally, someone to stop these shameless people by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    By... ummm... shaming them... umm... wait.. I think I see a possible flaw in this plan.

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  4. They should hire John Cleese for the ad campaign by The_REAL_DZA · · Score: 3, Funny

    {Nothing typed here would be as humorous as just the notion of someone turning Cleese loose to ridicule these clowns!}

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  5. Re:Is that all? by eyepeepackets · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll place my vote under the "drawn and quartered" category along with Mr. Reason, but only if it's a public drawing and quartering and they sell decent beer and popcorn...and if the executed has to pay all costs associated with his drawing and quartering, including my beer and popcorn...and if they use really big trucks to do the pulling in low-and-slow gear, not wimpy horses who might bolt at the sound of a cheering audience.

    Cheers. So who's first?

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  6. Re:Sounds like free advertising. by crotherm · · Score: 4, Funny


    No such thing as bad publicity.

    I don't know about that. How is SCO doing these days with all that free advertising we gave them?

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  7. I know somthing that can be done to Advertisers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    A friend of mine showed me this cool Avi video of three advertisers fighting it out in a death match. I thought it was so hillarious it had me drooling in favor and lock-jawed. My friend posted it on rapidshare because it is huge at ~46 Mega-Bytes; here it is. I hope you all have anything near DSL and Cable, as it is worth the wait if not and it is a keeper right next to Turkish Star Trek and others. Enjoy!

    To confirm you're not a script,
    please type the word in this image: strapon

  8. Ob Holy Grail Quote by akpoff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now go away before I taunt you a second time!