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[Harmonic7]

I've had no recent experience w/"Coupons" or "WhenU", but "Crawler" has definitely earned my trust w/their excellent "Spyware Terminator" - been using it ever since MS AntiSpyware became Windows Defender w/absolutely no indication of anything suspicious (& a scan of various forums shows I'm far from alone in this assessment). Just sayin'.

[sdibaja]

a person or company that is not ethical will probably not change.Truste has just lost my trust!

[MichaelTsark]

[quote:"Tom Spring"] I'm finding it hard to trust Truste."[unquote]I know what you mean, it's unfortunate yet predictable ill-greed will present itself in many forms where big money shows its face & the Internet is no exception. Time & time again I seem to find corruption quite too often on the Internet. For instance, earlier today for the 1st time I installed a mixer called MixPad & upon installation I was somewhat tricked & led into installing several of NCH Swift Sound's programs instead of just one but when I tried to un-install any of them they wouldn't un-install but instead it only opened up the programs themselves whether it be thru the program's un-install file or thru Add or Remove application. I had to resort to the regedit application in order to take it out of my registry. (I did try using latest PC Download Mixxx but I messed up when the first file I openned was a 79-minute file & it slowed down my 256RAM way too much & that's how come I tried MixPad.) But that's not as bad as earlier this month when I tried to make a donation, plus made a purchase, to a so-called non-profit organization but the resulting transaction smelled so bad of corruption I quickly terminated the debit card I used for the attempted donation & then needed a 3rd party in order to achieve a refund for the purchased item or else I'm convince FreeTheSlaves.net would still be ignoring me today, so now I'm looking into another anti-slavery non-profit org called International Justice Mission after I learned about a teen named Zack Hunter who was featured on CNN because of his devoted ambition to help wipe out modern slavery. Then there's the 2 different times I tried (S)uploading my original works onto two different websites that were supposedly going to either Protect My Work or to WebHost it only to discover they immediately attempted to steal it for themselves. I confronted the latest hosting website a few months ago & warned them I'd be reporting their behavior to authoritative agencies & then right on predicted schedule I began receiving retaliatory spam w/in 24 hours & since Dec 6th, 2006, out of a total 962 items of spam I greatly suspect approximately 790 originates from the two webhosts involved with the last hosting website I confronted. I won't mention their names because I still need to file a report with Internet Crime Complaint Center and I don't want the two crooked webhosts to know. Ahh, yes, I know just how you feel, but then afterall, our family species are current top predatory species, are we not?

[MichaelTsark]

[quote name='Harmonic7']Just sayin'.I hear you. For the longest time I was leery of PayPal but not anymore. When I first got a computer 7 years ago I typed in PayPal and hit enter and the first thing that showed up was a long list of complaints about PayPal, but 7 years later I'm under the impression they greatly cleaned up their act because they were the 3rd-party who promptly helped me get my recent refund and they appeared to be completely and professionally honest about it.

[MichaelTsark]

[quote name='sdibaja']a person or company that is not ethical will probably not change.I hear you a little bit louder. In my opinion most times corrupt-minded won't change.

[RiffRaff]

On a personal level- I don't think ANY of the former Adware monsters should receive any kind of endorsement or even compliance logo from an agency claiming to help identify consumer friendly policies. From a business perspective, if any of these companies are EVER to hope for a chance to operate legitimately, then they need the endorsement of programs such as Truste and verified certificates. One thought though: Truste claims to address companies that apply with its privacy policy standards, but do they take into account how those companies install their software, whether the end-user has to actively install or even gets presented the privacy statement or EULA? Or do they simply evaluate the text of the policy itself and rubber stamp it based on that alone? Just a thought.

[fchris415]

Corporate invasion of personal privacy is not a win-win situation. This is a war in which TRUSTe will often have to take sides. Learning that it backed down from Microsoft and had to haggle over even the audit it wanted to impose was an eye-opener. Chris Larsen, the CEO of E-Loan who revealed the behind-the-scenes haggling, described his company as "very concerned" about TRUSTe's inability to address the issue.
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