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Snopes Pushing Zango Adware

Posted by kdawson on from the say-it-ain't-so dept.

DaMan writes "Here's something that isn't an urban legend — Snopes, the popular urban legends reference site, has been pushing adware, for at least 6 months, to users via ads displayed on its Web site. No one seems to have called them on it until recently."

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  1. I hear... by Landshark17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They also run spam servers... http://xkcd.com/250/

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  2. This sounds fake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I should go check an urban myth site to see if it's real...

  3. Coincidentally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pushing Zango" is Dominican slang for having sex with an elderly woman. It's true.

    1. Re:Coincidentally... by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is that Dominican-the-country or Dominican-the-Catholic-religious-order?

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  4. Re:It's not a Snopes Problem. by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spelling it "Windoze" and "M$" just makes me think you're a moron. You're not a moron, are you? Why would you want me to think that? Hey, man, ease up. My bro there sounds like a mature man of 14 wise years. He's just tryin' to lay the truth on you, for real. He ain't gotta do no code review, he got that shizzle memorized, yo. He's pimpin that junk in binary, it ain't even on our level. True talk, he's down with the open source life-style like a mutha. He's the kind of real playa who's got spreadsheets printed out all over his bedsheets, in ODF format for sure.

    Microsoft better watch out when he rolls deep with his leet skillz, he'll bust a cap in that closed source shiznit. Word.

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  5. Re:It's not a Snopes Problem. by thetorpedodog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Word.

    Surely you mean "OpenOffice Writer", my home-dawg?

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