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Re:Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish by mhurron on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:54PM (#9526118)
Lenovo doesn't care that your individual security minded person had an issue with it, Lenovo cares that their volume purchasers continue to purchase in volume. They weren't impacted and they don't care.

There are basically no long term downsides to Lenovo for doing what they did.

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Re:Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish by onli on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:32PM (#9526384)
And you know that how? News articles in the normal media titled "Lenovo spreading Spyware" reach exactly those normal customers, and it is quite possible that this has an effect. And further, those users interested in the stuff are the ones recommending laptops to others.

We simply don't know the effect because we know no sale figures, or do we?

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