Well I'm not giving reason to Netscape, or to the guy who decided to to
that, but if you compare this to all Misro$oft did since years to beat
up the competition, its nothing.
Jon Hall wrote:
> I think Kieran McCarthy of The Register said it best. Wouldn't you get
> creeped out if you went to the store, and picked up a leaflet
> advertisement for some company, and the company had someone follow you
> home and record everything you did?
>
> Netscape didn't do anything with the data, but they were obviously way
> over the line in collecting the data. I hope the developer or manager
> who came up with the dumb idea to grab all of the data is not one of the
> Netscape guys working on Mozilla. He/She/They showed an amazing lack of
> regard for the privacy rights of their users.
>
> jon
> Thomas Guyot wrote:
>
>> JTK wrote:
>>
>>> So not only is "SmartDownload" a miserable ad-pump, it's a privacy
>>> invader too? Huh. If I'd known that I wouldn't have even used it once:
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093891,00.html
>>>
>>> And before anyone cries "OT": when the "netscape." is gone, then you can
>>> cry.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah and I'm sure Microsoft's unfair competition have nothing to do
>> with these doubtful ways to get some cash home... After all, netscape
>> just had to sell his browser instead of donating it!
>>
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