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my problem is with using the term "spyware"

my problem is with using the term "spyware"

Posted Dec 21, 2012 1:34 UTC (Fri) by heijo (guest, #88363)
In reply to: my problem is with using the term "spyware" by dlang
Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

Ubuntu could just periodically download an index containing all Amazon's products and do the search locally.


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my problem is with using the term "spyware"

Posted Dec 21, 2012 1:51 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

they may also need to download the supercomputer cluster to search through that data in a reasonable time. It's not just a simple grep equivalent.

my problem is with using the term "spyware"

Posted Dec 21, 2012 4:36 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Plus, a continually updated list of all Amazon's products would be worth quite some money to certain competitors.

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