My Pledge

Someday, when I have the time and resources I will go to the headquarters of each of the companies in the world that make Adware.

I will find the CEO of those companies.

I will stand in front of them with a little cardboard sign made to look like a dialog box. The dialog box will read:

“WE HAVE DETECTED THAT YOU NEED TO BE PUNCHED IN THE NOSE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PUNCHED IN THE NOSE? [YES] [NO]”

I will follow them around and pester them with my dialog box until they finally press one of the buttons.

No matter which button they choose, I will punch them in the nose.

Hard.

Again and again.

Until they are dead.

And then I will say to their lifeless bodies:

“Would you like to uninstall me? TOUGH SHIT.”

38 thoughts on “My Pledge

  1. But Ryan, I just researched one of those companies, and found that it’s a “leading provider of innovative advertising solutions.”

    How can you not like that?

  2. I use AdAware (by Lavasoft) and a Norton firewall. I have the firewall set up to block all ports unless I override the setting. I also have it set up so that no application can access the internet without first asking permission.

    Lastly, if you are a Windows user, you can make advertising domains “non gratis” on your computer by redirecting those domains to 127.0.0.1 (to a computer, that means “yourself”) in your hosts file. It sounds complicated, but it’s not. Google on “hosts file spam” and you’ll learn more. This has the added benefit of blocking ads, too.

    And if anyone needs a good punching to death, it’s Bill Gates for selling a desktop/browser/mail client that is so susceptible to being taken over by bad people.

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