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Home 30 Apr 2005 Why there's no such thing as good adware Email Adware is a variety of spyware that shows ads on your computer, nominally in exchange for letting you use a program like KaZaA. Programs like Eudora and Opera that show their own ads when they're running aren't usually considered adware; typical adware pops up ads on web browsers in addition to or instead of existing ads. Often they watch the URLs and try to show ads related to the URL, so if you visited a web site for contact lenses, adware would pop up an ad for a competitor that's paid the adware company to do so. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, adware is inherently abusive. See more ... posted at: 12:09 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/adware.trackback

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