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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Where do you fit in the Adware battle?

Take the test...

1) Your opinion of adware is that

a) Adware is good for a free economy. Adware provides a valuable, life affirming service for all mankind. Oh God, I get horny when I think of a pop-up ad.
b) Spyware can (and does) improve social welfare. I can't actually think of any that does right now, but it does. Trust me.
c) You think Adware programs are an outdated model that might have worked, if they had been implemented better back in the day. But it wasn't and now nobody cares. Google ads came along and pwned them good anyway. And every program containing Adware has a rival that does the job better and with no additional extras.

2) Calling companies "Spyware vendors" isn't on anymore, because we now call "the bad stuff" spyware. We give them a chance and call them "Adware", though they don't like that either. Your opinion is

a) Call them "Searchware" or "Sponsorware". Something that proves they are a cut above the rest of the market and absolutely do not lose control of their affiliates twice a week.
b) Antispyware vendors are the greatest evil of our time and should be rounded up, herded into pens and branded. With baseball bats.
c) Wait, don't the same companies that claim to be legitimate now seemingly have a piece in the news twice a week about how they lost control of their affiliates who went pop-up crazy and pissed the world and its mother off?

3) There's a real value created by Adware in society as a whole. This value is

a) I can have as many irrelevant "contextual" ads pop up on my desktop as I want, even when I searched for "T-shirts" and got "Gonzo porn" instead! Woohoo! Free porn and I didn't even have to go look for it!
b) It's good for the Adware companies, who make money. And it's good for the advertisers, who make money. Your PC is possibly screwed, but oh well.
c) .....er......cheap laughs when they invariably get busted?

4) There are zealots out there in the Antispyware world. Do you

a) Wish to God someone would drop those bastards right off a cliff. Especially that Paperghost guy. He is teh sux0r.
b) Use the word "zealot" a lot, yet never expand on a real definition of what that actually entails, who you mean or even seemingly state (ever) that most Adware business models suck. It's important not to for the good of the economy.
c) Spend days at a time in a constant battle with crappy installs, useless disclosure, the latest "shock" bundle / distribution campaign then spend the rest of the week wishing you were somewhere else, cleaning up someone else's "latest hot campaign" mess for free.

How did you do?

If you got mostly A's, then you are...









If you got mostly B's, then you are...









If you got mostly C's, then you are...









I hope you enjoyed the test. If you require more information on the results, further reading can be found here, there and everywhere. And if you want lots of comically funny pictures to use, Bigfoto has lots.

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