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Bonzi Buddy was widely classified as spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy But if you read the description
by praseodym 2y ago
Bonzi Buddy was widely classified as spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
But if you read the description of its spyware behaviour from a current perspective, it's not that different from the telemetry that’s implemented everywhere and Windows bugging you to use Bing as a search engine.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoWas wild reading the talk page for that and seeing Jimbo Wales weighing in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:BonziBuddy
- Gormo 2y agoYes, Bonzi Buddy was spyware. It's not that what they were doing was OK, but rather that the industry has normalized spyware.