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AMD making money from ad revenue from installing drivers!?!?

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7 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Is a shortcut not a piece of software?

It's not an executable, but not all software are executables.

Seems like you guys are splitting hairs here.

 

Didn't AMD roll back on the quake champions shortcut anyway?

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5 hours ago, Energycore said:

Seems like you guys are splitting hairs here.

 

Didn't AMD roll back on the quake champions shortcut anyway?

I don't think I am, but I agree that the others are. I just said that my opinion is that what AMD did was adware, according to my definition of adware. If people want to disagree with that then fine. Let's talk about it and how their definition differs from mine.

Saying that it's not adware because it's not software is silly and doesn't really change anything.

Yes they did go back on it.

 

 

 

9 hours ago, Tomsen said:

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Look, this is getting ridiculous. We're arguing semantics here and you seem to be very emotionally involved in this so I think it's best we quit.

You don't think this was adware, fine. I think it was. If not the icon itself was adware then the driver package was (which I think is even more serious than just calling the icon adware).

It's all based on opinions and our own definitions of what is and isn't adware. But to quote yourself:

19 hours ago, Tomsen said:

Yet, we have the same user who keeps making "opinion based facts" in nearly every topic regarding AMD (without consequences). The statement aren't laid out as opinions, they are laid out as ultimatums. Making the statement that AMD drivers install adware or malware is BS, not an opinion in any fashion.

Do you not see that you're doing the exact same thing except on the opposite spectrum? I have been very clear that I think this is a matter of opinion. What you think is and isn't adware is up for interpretation since there are no definitive rules you can point to and say "this is adware because it does exactly X, Y and Z but not A and B".

Unless you can link to a very specific definition which has a list of criteria you can compare this against, you are also guilty of making statements which are opinions, but laid out as ultimatums.

 

I am not the only one in this thread which says that you could at the very least classify the driver installer as adware, which you have denied. So it is very clear that this is a matter of what your personal definition, not some indisputable facts.

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No one cares.

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I am now wondering how old a thread has to be before it is considered necro'd.  It appears 3 weeks is enough. 

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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