Adwares.

[Starry Windy]

There's a different kind of software, which works like a freeware, but filled with some advertising stuffs (like the well-known OpenCandy) to support the developer of the software. What's your opinion on adwares, do you enjoy using it just like you would enjoy the freewares? Or does it concerns you because of advertising inside of it?

 

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

I tend to avoid anything that insists on trying to sell other peoples junk to me!!!
So no not unless there was something I could do (without paying)to get rid of the adverts.

 

[Megan]

I'm not a fan of advertisement in general. Adware's one of these things that I striktly avoid, especially that one of the "unknown source" kind. You never know if the software you just downloaded doesn't do something else, the user is unaware of.

 

[Tsutarja]

Just so you guys know, if you have Skype on your computer, you technically have adware installed. ;)

Not all adware is bad though, such as Skype. However, it becomes malicious whenever you start to see advertising links like constant popups or even ads not generated by a website.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Pretty sure apps that has advertisements within itself and not causing other apps to have them too aren't exactly what we call adware :)

(By that point, though, it's malware.)

 

[Hiatus]

I don't have anything against adwares, but some do tend to get annoying, in a way, when they begin affecting your web browsers and force advertisements to appear in form of pop-ups (as stated couple of posts above), redirect pages, and so forth; they're bothersome (have gone through them a few times before). I'm not sure if they have a different term for these sort of things, but I've seen others refer to them as adware, so I do the same.

 

[Pendraflare]

It kinda gets stupid after a while seeing advertisements for things i'm obviously not going to bother even looking at. I remember when I had a Yahoo mail account and its spam box would always be full of things I never cared to see.

 

[probono]

Just so you guys know, if you have Skype on your computer, you technically have adware installed. ;)

ggggggggggg. trying so hard to get my friends to switch to a less garbage im program like pidgin because i was getting tired of the adtrash it comes with but those smutpeddlers are too set in their ways to change. it's even worse with the new update which just makes everything slower than it needs to be.

CURSE COMPLACENCY

 

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

With Skype there is trick you can do to get rid of the adverts, by tricking the computer into blocking the banners from showing.

 

[Sylphiel]

If there's like a billion and/or huge adverts in a product, nope. brb I'm going back to google to find something else. I don't pay attention to the ads anyway and I think it's tacky as hell to have many in-your-face ads.

Skype is at least okay for me since I don't notice the ads all that much.

 

[Starry Windy]

I personally think adwares can be good if the ads don't show up too much, or showing up in the most annoying way possible, which is why mostly I prefer another apps which don't have one, with exception of Skype, that is.