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Does malicious mean interfering with Google's business model, or does it include intrusive advertising?
by direwolf20 9mo ago
Does malicious mean interfering with Google's business model, or does it include intrusive advertising?
- tgsovlerkhgsel 9mo agoMalicious here means "most people who aren't trying to argue semantics or otherwise be smartasses about it would consider it malware". That's why the example I gave is a semi-popular software the allows watching YouTube without ads without a premium subscription, i.e. at least in the case I observed, I don't believe this was weaponized against apps that interfere with their business model. As for "intrusive advertising is malicious", see the second part of the first sentence.
- direwolf20 9mo agoI'm not being a smartass. Intrusive ads are malware. Adware used to be a category in virus scanners, then stopped when virus scanners wanted to run ads themselves. Proxying traffic is not malware, since it doesn't affect me in any way.
- ThePowerOfFuet 9mo agomalicious ≠ intrusive.
- direwolf20 9mo agobut intrusive advertising is malicious