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Pretty much, yes - if there's a buck to be made and the law isn't being broken (in a way that will be meaningfully prosecuted), someone will do it. To answer y
by guycook 12y ago
Pretty much, yes - if there's a buck to be made and the law isn't being broken (in a way that will be meaningfully prosecuted), someone will do it.
To answer your first question, someone from HN should surely about this given: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/ http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-fu...
Extensive commentary at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806
- makomk 12y agoYeah, pg even defended a YC-backed company that had built a business model around exactly this kind of bundling, saying that it wasn't a big deal because their installers always asked for permission before installing the bundled crap. (Which they did in exactly the same way as these download.com installers - by making the prompts look like EULA acceptance screens.)
- username223 12y agopg "investigated" that crapware company a couple of years ago [1], but they still apparently exist, and continue to collect MAC addresses. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062133
- unreal37 12y agoWhat was the result of that investigation? Can't find any info in the original thread.
- username223 12y agoI don't know, but I'm guessing that the comment solved the PR problem, so there was no need to do any investigation, or to act on the results of one. EDIT: pg's response was basically "suck it": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711