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Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware

Posted by Zonk on from the clippy-has-a-couple-cheap-watches-to-offer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica has an article on the mother of all adware patents filed by Microsoft: 'It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time.' Ars discusses this disturbing concept, which was originally unearthed by Information Week and we first discussed last week."

3 of 378 comments (clear)

  1. "Context data" by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder, if my hard drive is filled with pirated Microsoft software, will they show me advertisements for The Pirate Bay?

  2. Re:More reasons by solevita · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's hope someone gets this bad boy working under WINE.


    /Sarcasm

  3. Re:Prior Art by Ucklak · · Score: 5, Funny

    [microsoft_speaking]

    Well, you only paid for a license to use our software based upon our terms.
    We're changing the terms of the license. Pray we don't alter the terms any further.

    [/microsoft_speaking]

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