Inside an Adware Company 244
Haikster writes "Brad Stone of Newsweek wrote a great article exposing DirectRevenue which is actually a combination of the old Dash guys with IPInsight, abetterinternet, offeroptimizer and blackstonemedia and the others... it's a bit lengthy but a great read."
They just use standard FOSS philosphophy (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the part with the burning and the fires? (Score:5, Funny)
where enraged citizens storm the building, set it on fire, seize the funds from the bank accounts and distribute to orphanages everywhere and leave the Adware staff tied up to lightpoles with a note for the police.
Dark. And noisy. (Score:5, Funny)
When pressed, he defined "easy" as "sorta like dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of feral cats."
And you don't wanna know what "transparent" looked like.
Re:Where's the part with the burning and the fires (Score:2, Funny)
I'm a newb (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where's the part with the burning and the fires (Score:4, Funny)
feedback (Score:2, Funny)
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Hmm. Kinda like my fantasy, which seems to involve a tricky hand gesture which magically transfers money from their bank account to my bank account. Of course, I don't mean to be rude, thus a tastefully worded thank-yew note is forwarded to them.
Ah.. to be Merlin for a day...
The real question... (Score:1, Funny)
4 pages? (Score:3, Funny)
Damn right it's a lengthy read. Anyone have the Cliff Notes for this?
Re:Where's the part with the burning and the fires (Score:1, Funny)
Two hundred and forty seven thousand?!?! (Score:4, Funny)
That is not a small number!
That is a very big number!!
Re:Where's the part with the burning and the fires (Score:3, Funny)
A serious failure of OSS here (Score:3, Funny)
Frankly I see no problems with companies like this. Spyware/Adware is a great tool wich allows me to instantly judge your intelligence. You got it? You don't have any. (Works both ways. Those without adware will see the logic, those with adware will have to find someone to explain it to them).