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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by forgottenpass on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:45PM (#8881689)
Developers have to be paid. When people paid for software with dollars, this exchange was much more straightforward.

There are plenty of services I pay for that sell data about me and/or show me advertizements.

So this is an appealing story, but it only works until someone decides "I could get paid, AND sell the user to advertizes/data harvesters." It's always easy to make now-impossible scenarios into appealing hypotheticals, and I'm sure that market forces COULD mean that none of the software or services currently supported through advertizement and data harvesting invasive and advertizement wouldn't do so, but nobody can say for sure.

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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by Retra on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:32PM (#8882749)
Exactly.

Hey look:  -> "App store... (3 new)"

Pretty sure I bought this laptop. ($2000) But there sits an advertisement, right in my GUI. Yes, this one is pretty harmless, but it is still there.

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