Think Adware Hasn’t Affected You? Think Again.

Jan 16
07:18

2007

Josh George

Josh George

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Chances are if you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you have had encounters with adware. Whether or not adware’s impact is a positive or negative one is up to the user to decide. Having said that, this article is designedto simply help distinguish the good and bad attributes of adware.

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Looking At Adware From a Negative Aspect:

For most people,Think Adware Hasn’t Affected You? Think Again. Articles adware’s negative characteristics are pretty obvious. The most common problem people have with adware is its ability to cause advertisements to spontaneously pop up on your computer. On top of that, adware also has a reputation of decreasing the speed and performance of computer’s.

Stepping away from adware’s functionality, people have also become very frustrated in trying to remove adware. From restarting the computer, to Internet-suggested manual methods, to virus scans, some adware will just not seem to go away, no matter what is done. In these situations, it seems the only guaranteed way to remove adware is to wipe the computer hard drive clean by reformatting and then just reinstall everything, which people usually frown upon.

Having stated the above, a lot of people can probably agree on all of the negative aspects of adware. It would be no surprise to hear additional complaints from people aside from the points listed earlier, but these are just the primary frustrations people have. At this point, a lot of people would probably laugh at the fact that adware has positive characteristics to it, but it’s true. As crazy as it sounds, below will discuss the positive traits of adware.

How Adware Has Made A Positive Impact:

Answer this: have you ever got something off of the Internet for free (legally, of course) and the developer of that download asked you for a donation? As a follow-up to that question, have you ever donated to freely download what these owners/developers offer? And don’t think that donating your time to visit their site and use their software counts. It would be a good guess to say the majority of people won’t donate any money to download stuff for free. Enter adware’s positive role.

In most occasions, where there is adware, there is money to be made. Since monetary contributions usually do not cover all of the costs from free downloads, advertisers are usually willing to contribute money. In return, they simply ask the download developers to bundle their adware with whatever they are offering. Since there are no other alternatives for the developer, (s)he agrees to bundle the adware.Having adware bundled with the initial software, you are then allowed to acquire the download for free.

So there you have it, adware does in fact serve a positive aspect to the Internet. It doesn’t matter if you do or do not utilize free downloads, because so many people already do. Having said that, adware is responsible for making so many downloads available for free.

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