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180Solutions and Deceptive Installs, Again

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
by Lockergnome

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Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews Writes:

Once again 180Solutions is in the news, and, as usual, it involves deceptive install practices. The Center for Democracy and Technology, CDT, has asked the FTC to stop 180Solutions from allowing “deceptive and unfair” methods in distributing products that generate online pop-up ads, saying that 180 has responded to it’s complaints, but they have only made minor improvements.

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