Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
rantsIt's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. Yes, Redmond wants to own the patent on the mother of all adware.
The application, filed in 2006, describes a multi-faceted, robust ad-delivering system that lives on a "user computer, whether it's part of the OS, an application or integrated within applications."
Dave Shuck said:
Dear Microsoft -
Suck it, and good luck with trying to get the slightest view of my data.
Sincerely,
Linux User
Suck it, and good luck with trying to get the slightest view of my data.
Sincerely,
Linux User
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