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Originally posted by ThePerson
And what are people who have trouble reading messed up letters like that supposed to do? Enter the letters wrong too many times and the sponser program forgets it's installed. That's not in any guide I can find.
There is obviously no legitimate purpose whatsoever in requiring one to solve a
CAPTCHA to uninstall something. You are completely justified in being annoyed by such nonsense, just as I would be. This "feature" is clearly there for the sole reason to make the adware more difficult to uninstall; however, I would suspect that is part of C2Media process and not Messenger Plus!.
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Originally posted by ThePerson
I'm way out of the loop here, what is the "REAL adware program"? Causes less hassels than what?
Reading through some of the results of
this Google search should answer those questions.
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Originally posted by ThePerson
Now that that's out of the way, my reasons for posting are curiousity about how/why the sponser program is how it is.
The obvious answer there is that the purpose of the "sponsor program" is to annoy the user with advertising. C2Media is paid by advertisers to deliver the ads, so they don't want you to be able to get rid of them easily (thus the captcha and multiple install locations with obscure names). Patchou is paid by C2Media to deliver their adware, which is his means of receiving some revenue from otherwise free software.
To Patchou's credit, you are offered a choice when installing Messenger Plus! and it is said the adware is tuned down a bit -- that is uncommon and a lot nicer than the handling of this in other adware-sponsored products. Now that you've managed to exorcise the "sponsor", my only recommendation would be to take care to not choose to install it in the future.
If you like the Messenger Plus! program and wish to compensate Patchou without suffering adware, perhaps someone else here can suggest some alternative means of doing that.
