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Old 03-14-2007, 04:31 PM  
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Originally Posted by DamageX View Post
Zango as an application may be legal. But the advertising methods employed by them aren't. I believe there have been lawsuits where people got fucked for bidding on competitor's names on PPC engines and stuff like that. How's Zango any different? And if that doesn't work, see the quote in the first post of this thread. I believe hijacking a potential client at the point-of-sale could prove to be heavily frowned upon by any judge, as well as the FTC.
That's the problem, they aren't stealing a clients at the point-of-sale. They POP an exit, which they are allowed to do, and they can reset the cookie, which is legal for tracking.

Its not normal spyware where it shows a different join page or redirects you to a new location. It just pops a ad..
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