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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 11:08 am
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Originally Posted by bdjohns1
I, for one, welcome our IB overlords? Channeling Kent Brockman there, koko?
lol, touche!

But fer realsies, adapt or die, right? There ain't no going back, so everyone just needs to be patient as FT evolves.

Not even "pretty unacceptable", koko. Try "dead wrong". Depending on jurisdiction, maybe even "illegal".

Trusted sites don't spew malware at your PC (or make you pay $12/year to avoid it). If I surf to CNN, Amazon, or the NY Times (even as a non-paying customer), I shouldn't have to worry *at all*. If visitors to Amazon got malware on their systems, Amazon would take a tremendous hit.
But if Amazon did get hit with malware via an advertising network and immediately shut it off when they found out about it whom would you blame?

They said they'd look into it and make sure it never happens again. They did that and say they are now keeping an eye on it. What more do folks want!? For IB to prostrate itself and beg forgiveness!?
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