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Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent

Posted by kdawson on from the why-share-the-revenue dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft has just published a patent application for advertising triggered by sequences of user actions, which describes how to interrupt game playing, music listening, and photo viewing with pop-up ads ('the components may be integrated directly into the operating system'). So will this ad technology get a free pass from Windows Defender?"

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  1. kdawson fud of the day. by El+Lobo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Our dear kdawson can't let pass a day without his anti ms fud. Ad-sponsored software is not inherently bad or automatically spyware . There are many applications that have been ad sponsored (Opera was such an app, eudora was another, and I'm sure there are a lot more). The think is, Windows Defender has nothing to do with this. Those who don't want to use an ad sponsored app, just don't use it.

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    1. Re:kdawson fud of the day. by El+Lobo · · Score: 0, Troll

      Works or don't work that's not the point. I hate ad sponsored software, but hell, if tomorrow Adobe releases a full featured Photoshop with some ads, I'm sure that thousand of people will be glad to use it. I mean, there is nothing that can touch Photoshop (please, don't even mention GIMP, don't make me laugh on my ass), so for some ads there will be a lot of people that will be glad to use an app that cost several thousand bucks. So ad sponsored apps is a OK model, that works some times for some people. So, yes, the article is FUD as almost everything our dear kdawson offers to us.

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