Quote by failure...Well
you're kinda on the right track. It's all about money. They aren't out to annoy you, that's just the
end result. Pop-ups, spyware, banner ads, and Google text-ads are all about money. Even if you don't buy the
product by clicking on the ad, it's the impression it makes on you. Here's an easy example that most people
should know... I want to buy a little webcam to spy on somebody. What's the first thing that comes into your mind
when you read that? For me, it's X10. I would never buy anything from them in a million years, but the point is
it's the first thing I thought of, and it's all thanks to the ads they plaster all over the internet and
pop-ups, etc. That's the goal of the whole insane, annoying business.
That's pretty much how it works and how they want it TO work, but they are just going to far by installing crap in
your PC that your not even aware of. One example of this is when you're not even surfing the net and you're
just waiting for a download to finish, after a while you see all sorts of shortcut icons popping out of your desktop.
The usual reaction is to delete them, but this just triggers other events to happen, and before you know it, you've
just formatted your hard drive.
I've read somewhere that there's a lawyer somewhere that filed a motion to ban spyware. I think he wants the
creators, sponsors, and all related parties to get arrested or something because they are violating the law, like
Vandalism, Invasion of Privacy, Destruction of Properties, etc... I'm still looking for the details, I'll fill
you all in on this when I do. The first one they should arrest is Bill Gates because he started this whole ActiveX
bullshit that allowed programmers/designers to allow some actions to be executed through HTML or whatever.
Anyone here remeber the guy that crashed M*croshit's website and got busted and was fined $500,000 and was later
sentenced 200+ hours of community service. That guy should be a hero for trying to stop the E-Bill Gates himself and his
path of digital destruction.