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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
You are a surfer. You don't have any "pages".
Oh and Smokey, how many people do you think read the Terms&Conditions when they sign up for porn sites? Most of the rebills come from people who don't know that their cards are going to be charged on a monthly basis. How many would agree to sign up fi they knew their personal info is going to be reselled many times over?
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Dark Jedi, people don't read terms and conditions (I doubt anyone reads the real long one that comes with windows XP, example), and companies take advantage of it. However, misunderstanding a billing procedure and misunderstanding that you are allowing a company to potentially violate your provacy, monitor your every action on the net, and innundate you with popup ads all for the joy of watching a 30 second video is an amazing abuse of those terms and conditions.
They do disclose in their terms what they are going to do, but it is the ultimate bullshit type of tag along selling possible. If they offered their "toolbar / surf helper / product" as a stand alone, nobody in their right mind would ever install it ("Yes! I WANT MORE POPUPS! MORE!"). They are shoving an undesirable product down people's throats under the guise of "it's in the terms and conditions".
Then again, the US government has no problem tacking on laws to block gambling onto a national defence bill, so we shouldn't look to the politicos to fix this problem any time soon.
Alex