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- flyingspatula, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Hey, if Yahoo! was actually competitive in the search engine industry, they would be able to have relevant ads placed within their results pages (a-la-google)....
I know that Yahoo! has been pushing products/services on consumers and hoping that they stick.... this newest allegation does NOT surprise me at all. This is a tactic used by a company that is in trouble. - BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23This headline is flat-out wrong. Yahoo is not spreading spyware and no one is alleging that they are. Their toolbar has nothing to do with this. This lawsuit is alleging that Yahoo is allowing spyware and typo-squatter domains to serve Overture ads without the advertisers knowing. There's a big difference between that and spreading spyware.
No digg. Reported as inaccurate. - chad78, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Yahoo sucks, Google Rocks.
One day, Google will rule the world. And I can't wait. I want to shop at Goog-Mart, eat at McGoogle's, fire up my tri-booting gMac with Mac OS G, Googdows, and Gubuntu, listen to tunes on my gPod, play games on my Gbox G-60, and... well you get the idea. - Moskie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Maybe I'm in the minority, but I love Yahoo. I think their content, services, and web-apps are friggin great. I seriously use them all the time for seeing what's on TV, movie times, news, looking up phone numbers. I starting to use their calendar and address book to maintain stuff too.
Their beta mapping tool might rival google, once it's done.
That being said, I haven't used Yahoo for searching since.... ever. - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You just want your girlfriend to have fake Googs.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7As I stated before... Toolbars are evil.
There is a Yahoo! Toolbar offered in about every other application including Adobe Reader... (thats why I switched
and converting my clients to FoxIt). - WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8The best IE toolbar? Firefox.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13@BloodJunkie
Spreading spyware and supporting spyware companies are the same thing as far as I am concerned. Maybe not to a court, but to me, it's the same thing. Shame on yahoo. - BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12your mom clicks on ads.
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8who clicks on ads anyway?
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Notice that they're also being sued for serving ads on typo-squatter pages...which is Google's largest source of AdSense revenue.
Google: you're next. Advertisers, unite! - localzuk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I have to say that the Yahoo Mail beta is the best I've used so far. I have even splashed out and paid for a years subscription to it. The only thing I want is better Camino, and Linux support (not together obviously).
- abhilash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sounds like pretty soon we'll be looking at pics of those fake googs on the World Wide Goog. Someone oughtta call googbusters.
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -3/+5"You were maknig a clever mockery of the fanatic Google missionaries around these types of sites, right? God I hope so."
you're saying that you don't want a gPod? - inaxdaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes, I'm so glad that Yahoo! is the *only* company that "profits" from typosquatting *cough* http://www.google.com/domainpark/ *cough* http://pack.google.com/ *cough*.
Seriously, I don't think I've ever read a more sensationalistic article before in my life (with the exception, possibly, of the title of this article on Digg). It's like the author tried to get as many buzzwords as humanly possible just so people would actually take the time to read this tripe. - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The Internet is spreading Yahoo!!!!
- caluml, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Not long now, my precious.
- abhilash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, there's a toolbar for f*cking everything. I'm waiting on the toolbar that lets people make their own toolbars. Sheesh.
- arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Shouldn't the title be "Yahoo! is spreading spyware" ?
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5How is this different from what Google does with their "Advanced Features on the toolbar" to track the sites you visit and tie them to their "sponsored" links. A lot of the time, those links are nothing more than spam garbage...
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1this is england, we don't get anything special. just rain and cloud.
- markjmcguire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Internet needs a better advertising model that doesn't reward people for the click. Lawsuits like this will raise awareness, but until we change the underlying PPC system to add transparency (so users understand when they click they are running up an advertiser's fees) or better yet align the underlying incentives between advertiser and intermediary, these practices will continue.
- abhilash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right on, Logiik. Supposedly on the T&C's for YPN & AdSense, the sites agree not to incentivize users to click-through any paid ads. But who really cares, right? Yahoo & Google know full well that there are people explicitly offering cash to users who click through, and they don't care. Why should they? Let the warez sites generate as much traffic as possible, so that Yahoo makes as much money as possible, and so that even more people have to put up with that damn exclamation point behind the name.
It's like a casino in vegas who lets a 17year old play the slots once with a $100 bill. Are they going to stop him? Hell no. Even if he wins, he can't keep the money. Let him spend it, and then kick him out. (or in my case, let him drink it, and then kick him out). - jonst52, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yahoo is spreading spyware!
Survey: 70% Of Malicious Software Aimed At Theft!
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Digg headlines with exclamation points: a new trend? - arlene1985, on 12/01/2007, -0/+0Yahoo is one of the three largest search engines on Earth - it can do anything it wants to. Who can make it obey morality? when in trouble, make sure you're running a desktop anti spyware program like XoftSpy Anti-spyware http://xoftspyantispyware.blogspot.com (download a PDF guide as a bonus - not included with the purchase!) or Spy Sweeper which is supported by Webroot Inc, running its own analytical center and security testing laboratory.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3And to think overture (what yahoo bought) was so far ahead adwords, just shows you how people can screw up a good thing
- cbreaker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4You were maknig a clever mockery of the fanatic Google missionaries around these types of sites, right? God I hope so.
- abhilash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1To those of you who don't consider this to be spyware, think again. These popups and often these useless websites show up for people who unknowingly downloaded some garbage program onto their computers. That's just sleazy.
Even though it's free for users, the advertisers are paying out their noses for this traffic that does nothing. The worst part, though, is that there's no way for an advertiser to say "I don't want clicks from that garbage website". Either you pay for all the traffic or none of it. Alot of people (ahem...me!) really use paid traffic, and this is just screwing them over.
Yahoo's not the only one--Google definitely does it too. But Yahoo's search algo is full of holes, and just too easy to beat. All I can say is that this is Yahoo embezzling their clients (the advertisers), and it really needs to stop. I hope the lawsuit wins big. - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3and this is news to you? Can I also intrest you in some prime real estate in the Florida swamplands for relatively cheap?
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I find Yahoo!'s e-mail buggy. And the required login every time you do something slightly
different than a few moments before is terribly annoying. And that's just a couple of
days ago, not an "old" problem. Their business services only respond to e-mail
support questions after 30 e-mails. Then once they respond, they ask you to re-hash the whole thing to them again. After that, they fail to follow up even though the problem is spelled out to them clearly. I've been getting seriously sick of that junk after using Yahoo! for years, only paying for services recently. When you pay, aren't things supposed to be better?
I used to love Yahoo! Not so sure anymore. - localzuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree there are bugs but that goes with the 'beta' status - if you want stable, use the standard yahoo mail.
I haven't had to use support yet though... - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Toolbars are for those two lazy to go to www.yahoo.com or www.google.com. And besides they take up valuable
browser realestate.
If your browser looks like this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/25376338/
Your in sad shape! - neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I had a yahoo a campaign, and I did receive a lot of clicks that were just repeats, you know click go back click again and so on. My stats showed me that each click had a new code next to it, so same person clicking repeatedly like 5 times from a site that had just nothing but a search and yahoo ads. There were many instances like that, anyway as soon as my $50.00 credit finished I stopped using them.
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yahoo Toolbar should be taken out and shot repeatedly. It breaks one of our programs that runs in Citrix. It causes a disconnect because it thinks citrix traffic is a pop-up ad or something.
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Over a year? What about summer?
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2No FoxIt is a PDF reader without all the bloatware and yahoo! spyware that Adobe Gives you to read a .pdf file.
So small it fits on a floppy. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Even most of the non-tech people I know found out that they got a lot more spyware running the yahoo toolbar than they did after running the google one....
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4LOL @ McGoogle's
- Ruckus21, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Yahoo is changing for the worse. I was looking for a car in their auto section and I accidentally clicked on the finance link located right below the auto link. Suddenly I'm getting financial SPAM from everywhere. This is dirty, dirty, dirty. Nothing will have me jump ship faster than a lack of trust in a website. I never buy anything in Yahoo stores for the same reason. The companies that get my retail business are the ones that respect my privacy.
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Why *exactly* does not wanting to have to enter the Google address and wait for it to load every time I do a search make me "lazy"?
Note that this is even slower for those on a dial-up connection.
Do you also consider those who omit to type the "http://" at the start of the address and rely on it being implicitly added (when they're using their browser) to be lazy?
The example you linked to was pretty funny, but not really a fair criticism of toolbars since it was deliberately silly. BTW, isn't there some form of Godwin's law that says you lose the argument for using buzzwords like "browser realestate"? ;-) - taotehue, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Please, the usage of exclamation marks has nothing to do with the subject. I would advise your English teacher to teach about writing things that are relevant to the matter being discussed. That is the only way to have intelligent and meaningful conversation.
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -3/+2yes it should but people don't realise the company is called "Yahoo!" (with exclamation) and well, it's firday afternoon, hotest weather in well, over a year and everyone knows what it's meant to be.
so let's just say we don't need to worry. - diggduggjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Let me understand this. A huge multinational corporation exploiting their slaves, I mean customers. Why is anyone surprised with this ***** anymore?
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Relevant? :P not always, apparently you can buy humanity and a variety of other "moralities" through ebay. :P
- abgillette, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Yahoo may very well be in trouble:
http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/broadband_aadfggggec_ic/
I wouldn't want to go up against those folks. - tex0101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Funnier yet, someone actually thinks this is news!
yahoo! has such a long history of violating their users, whether selling their information, changing their spam preferences w/o their knowledge, or working with spyware... - galfridus73, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4gPod! How did you know the name of my iPod?!?
- johnie1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5isn't it time Yahoo sold all their ***** to Google and got off the internet ?
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Google's got enough problems without being responsible for "spreading spyware".
- yish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2wow. up to 444:8.
I'm serious. Flame me, but I don't understand why this is news and that isn't.
I mean, spamming is evil but conspiring with oppressive regimes is cool? Is this the DIGG moral standard? -
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