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Originally posted by RawAlex
spyware / scumware / malware / redirection software is literally eating the industry from the inside out. On the surface, things are great. Under the skin, though, things are not so good.
Microsoft moving to plug the holes is, as is normal for them, overtly agressive and late. Considering that something like 85% of surfers are using IE, the console will soon die a horrible death. It also puts many of those "pop up blocker" companies right out of business.
Hopefully the government of the US takes action again some of these scumware companies, and let's us all (including mainstream companies) get back to business.
Alex
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I couldn't agree more - and to supplement that a little, it's worth mentioning that as nice as Mozilla is (in terms of removing a lot of the threat of spyware/autodownloads) - it's still nearly as useless as the rest of the linux world in that there's very very very limited support for it, and the majority of sites out there don't even display properly on it because the morons who coded it decided that the rest of the world should conform to THEIR standards
2004-09-17, 01:59 PM
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