3 ms·
The first time I remember adware was a winamp reverb plugin (Realreverb convolution) in the 90's. From then on it became increasingly more common. Fortunately i
by marcodiego 5y ago
The first time I remember adware was a winamp reverb plugin (Realreverb convolution) in the 90's. From then on it became increasingly more common. Fortunately it was also around that time I migrated most (all?) my tasks and needs to FLOSS. I fell very sorry for the people who just can't do the same.
Since it was so long ago, I even forget how problematic this is nowadays. The next barrier are ads in websites, which if the content is good, I really only care about the most intrusive ones. Nevertheless, I've been using ad-blockers for such a long time that when I see people browsing with ads it looks like another world to me.
- reaperducer 5y agoThe first time I remember adware was a winamp reverb plugin (Realreverb convolution) in the 90's. The earliest one I can remember was RealPlayer. I'm glad that program finall... buffering...
- marcodiego 5y agoThe last realplayer version I used was G2. I remember it had "sponsors" and channels that probably payed to be on that list. That doesn't even looks like advertising to me. At the time, I really liked the fact that it allowed me to watch live video, including NASA TV, on a dial up connection. Don't miss those times though. I like the fact that I can watch NASA TV on my FLOSS browser or using VLC.