Originally Posted by jayeff

Can we please stop using the word "adware" in relation to Zango and other operations like it!

ICQ is adware. Eudora is adware. Adware is a legitimate marketing model in which part of display is occupied by advertising no more pernicious than what we might place ourselves on one of our sites. No-one who has acceptable adware programs on his or her PC is going to attempt to visit a site, only to have another pop up on top of it.

You are playing right into Zango's hands by equating their product to legitimate adware and if you are doing it to spare Lars' feelings, the obvious question is why? It took him a week to respond at all and he did so with evasions and euphemisms. There is nothing reassuring in anything he wrote: quite the contrary. He hasn't been in this business 5 minutes, so if he has been surprized by anything at all, it is that he got caught and at least some webmasters have spoken up against him. His message is basically the same as it is about working with stolen content sites: if we didn't do it, someone else would. Oh and btw we are going to keep on doing it...