I can't believe that people think that this is a taste of Ad-Aware's own medicine - Spyware is installed completely surreptitiously and without the user's consent, whereas Ad-Aware has been purposefully installed in order to remove any invasions of privacy.
It's about as far from medicine as I can imagine. Unless it involved leeches.
It's like buying a game that automatically searched for any other game on your computer, and then removed them without asking. Kinda. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Steathily remove all opposition to leave the path clear for your own product.
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I can't believe that people think that this is a taste of Ad-Aware's own medicine - Spyware is installed completely surreptitiously and without the user's consent, whereas Ad-Aware has been purposefully installed in order to remove any invasions of privacy.
It's about as far from medicine as I can imagine. Unless it involved leeches.
It's like buying a game that automatically searched for any other game on your computer, and then removed them without asking. Kinda. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Steathily remove all opposition to leave the path clear for your own product.