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Cingular, Others Fined For Using Adware

Posted by kdawson on from the about-time dept.

amigoro writes "Cingular, Priceline, and Travelocity have been fined for using adware by the New York Attorney General. The companies will each pay $30K to $35K as penalties and investigatory costs. More importantly, the companies agreed to a series of restrictions and best practices that, while they make eminent sense to consumers, will be loathsome to businesses accustomed to having their way with our computers."

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  1. How dare they use AG's adware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ["Cingular, Priceline, and Travelocity have been fined for using adware by the New York Attorney General.]

    Silly people, they should have used adware by someone other than AG himself.

  2. First we take Manhattan, then we take Lagos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if they could only go after this Col. Motumbwe who keeps emailing me about his bank...

    1. Re:First we take Manhattan, then we take Lagos by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      I say we fix him up with General Abacha's widow.

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  3. the popup comes in --- by notoriousE · · Score: 3, Funny

    "there is a problem with your registry, click here to get a NEW BLACKBERRY from Cingular!"

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    And then there was E
  4. meanwhile.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. A homeless man in N.Y.C was charged 400,000 per music download by the MAFIAA. He said he doesn't even own a computer.

  5. Re:Thanks again to the NY Attorney General by The_Wilschon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love our dual and mutually exclusive stereotypes of the Republican party. First, its the dumb hicks out in the boonies (who, btw, generally don't have a whole lot of money, generally quite a bit less than people in the cities, and furthermore are often quite nice people), then its the rich and selfish (who, btw, usually don't get to be rich and selfish by living out in the boonies and being ignorant).

    I'm not a Republican (nor am I a Democrat, yay George Washington and the no-parties-at-all-would-be-desirable stance), but I still find /.'s collective opinion of the Republican party amusing.

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  6. Re:Thanks again to the NY Attorney General by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am a Republican, an active supporter of the party leadership and an active supporter of the Bush Administration.

    What, Anonymous Coward doesn't count as a well-used account?

  7. Re:Obligatory speculation: How did this happen? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, Cingular top executives were sitting around in a restaurant one day, and one of them said, "How can we permanently lower our sales to computer professionals?"
    -- Who gives a shit about those? said the most junior executive. They're always bitching and moaning and they nitpick through our customer service contracts. It's a crowd we'd rather not have.

    -- Yeah, that's true. Let's ditch the computer pro market, they're geeks anyways!