a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
For making money by selling targeted advertising.
commandlinegamer
Philosopher
I doubt the validity of the OP's statement, though to be fair, unless you've access to the source, there's no way of being sure what data might be being reported back to manufacturers.
There's certainly a lot of spyware around: I spend most of day my cleaning it off machines-but much of it is self-inflicted (not necessarily intentionally) by installing every little bit of trialware under the sun, not reading the small print (and missing the half-a-dozen other items which will be installed alongside whatever free utility you've downloaded), or looking for access to sports/movies from non-legit sources.
There's certainly a lot of spyware around: I spend most of day my cleaning it off machines-but much of it is self-inflicted (not necessarily intentionally) by installing every little bit of trialware under the sun, not reading the small print (and missing the half-a-dozen other items which will be installed alongside whatever free utility you've downloaded), or looking for access to sports/movies from non-legit sources.
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Hellbound
Merchant of Doom
Unless you're an untrusting, curious techno-junkie who has various network trace software installed to see exactly what traffic leaves (or, more often, attempts to leave) your computer, and where it's headed. Plus correlations with the dedicated, hardened firewall on your internet connection.
But I admit, I'm a bit atypical.
On the plus side, I know exactly which websites my kids go to
Gawdzilla Sama
121.92-meter mutant fire-breathing lizard-thingy
Malwarebytes and no more threat.
Psi Baba
Homo Skepticalis
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Some software updates itself so often that I've become convinced that the only updates Java and Adobe are actually providing is giving you another chance to open yourself up to being violated by their freeloaderware. We don't even really know if the software has actually been updated; we just trust them that it is. I doubt they are really updating it that often. It's probably in their contract that they push the updates a certain number of times a week.
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abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
As usual, take the facts and miss the point. As a software developer, I include what might be termed "spyware" in what I develop, but I have no interest other than the maintenance of licences other than my own.
Furthermore, it is trivially easy to bork any spyware if one were interested. Apparently, you are far more interested in moaning about it than doing something about it.