Ben Edelman and Eric Howes: Additional Comments on Improper Zango Practices

Not so long ago, a combined effort from Ben Edelman and Eric Howes was submitted to the FTC - it zoomed in on eight sucktacular installs and kicked them about a bit. The installs were courtesy of Zango - well, Ben has updated the article with the following:

Update (December 8): Our follow-up comment to the FTC discusses additional concerns, further ongoing bad practices at Zango, and the special difficulty of enforcement in light of practices seemingly not prohibited by the proposed settlement.

The PDF tackles the recent Myspace worm that directed people to Zango content, and also asks whether Zango are basically okay to arrive on the users desktop in whatever dubious means is available at the time, so long as they pop their "HI! WE'RE HERE!" disclosure box. An interesting read...