It is ridiculous and some of it should be and probably is illegal. Imagine taking your car into service and then the radio every 15 minutes would say "Remember to bring your car back to Ima Scammer's car repair".
How is this any different. The FTC needs to go after a few of these companies - like they did with the SE Spammers that were spamming toys for childrens books and highjacking people's pages. After a few companies have their assets siezed - as far as I am concerned the megago (or however it is spelled) one is the worst - I have had that happen several times and they are doing this with goto. There should be an investigation into whether goto knows about this - and if so - they should be fined big time.
There is a simple way to block some of these companies using a hosts file, but someone would have to update it and and have system in place so that people could report new offenders.
I have no problem with aggressive advertising, but as soon as you change one byte on the permanent setup of my computer - you have crossed the line.
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