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Originally Posted by will76
The issue here is that legislation will only come about because people's pcs are crashing, worried about privacy laws, etc...
That is because these spyware " adware " companies sell traffic, so they need to pop up 5 zillion windows so they can make money and this kills the person pc.
The ones I am worried about are the ones that are created just to steal affiliate signups, not to sell traffic. If this is there intention they can basically run stealth and the user would never know it is on their pc. Likely it wont be added to anti virus software since no one is complaining about it, and if it only affects us than the govt wont care. The other problem is what recourse do we have the people doing this out of Ukrain or China ? How would our legislation protect us and get those people to stop.
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Good points. I think legislation will knock out a lot of the big offenders. As for the others that steal affiliate codes, I think we're also going to see computers become more secure. I know Vista isn't perfect, but it's actually a step in the right direction. I think the emphasis in the next 5 years by Microsoft will continue to be security (along with multimedia).
And I do think you'll always have a percent of the traffic out there that has been hit by something. The question is whether companies will allow it or be hard on it. Also whether they face some legislation. I will guarantee you that AFF will be sued very soon for something (I can't go into details but have heard the rumblings from someone) related to spyware and their ads popping up on other peoples websites. It'll be interesting to see if people continue to blindly support them or turn their traffic to more ethical companies.