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Old 07-27-2004, 03:35 AM  
RicardoB
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Quote:
Originally posted by Turboface
Close, but no.

Dialers have a legitamate purpose, love 'em or hate 'em. They are a viable billing option for many countries that credit cards are not commonly used.

On the other hand we have these toolbars that only just being blantanly used to rape surfers and are making the Internet an ugly enviroment for people all over the world.

That's not what I meant.

You had dialers charging the regular rates and you had the ones charging insane premium rates

You had dialers that were conform FTC standards and you had autodialing, autoinstalling and auto reconnecting ones I even seen some that wouldn't close rigging phonebills to insane proportions.

Toolbars it's the same.

You have some that do just that install a searchbar, provide the uninstall and that's that and you have those that fill up ya pc with spyware.

Hope that clears it up a bit if not I'll post some examples to make my case
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