Originally Posted by Bama

I don't make a habit of having to find projects - they find me and a thread such as that would be presumptuous on my part because it is not my place to decide when the market is ready for the cure - that's up to the webmaster community to say to program owners "I've had enough" and ask them to change. Until that time it's not likely that you'll see any significant market-wide fixes and that is what I do - market wide changes.

Spyware costs webmasters money not program owners so the incentive isn't there for them. They're going to cut a referral check for a join so who they pay isn't as big of a factor as you might think. It's much like spam: publicly it's not acceptable but if the joins are there and the negative response limited... well, you can draw your own conclusions and if need be, you can borrow my etch-a-sketch to do so.

Interestingly enough, many program owners know that I can fix things for their webmasters but to date, only 2 have asked me about it and if you noticed in my initial post I said if there was enough of an interest I would get involved.

I believe the coalition would be best served bringing enough webmasters together and approaching program owners as a group.

And, FYI, no, I'll not sell another license of the software.