Wednesday, December 4, 2002 |
16:54 - The AOLization of the Internet
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Some e-mails that are circulating around the company, sent by Outlook users, now have this charming little footer:
NOOOO! Beware, citizens! Resiiiiist the colors!
RESIST!
These are the rewards we reap: software that embeds ads for newer versions of itself-- really crude ads, at that-- into the content created by users of the program. Even content that is read by users of other e-mail programs. (This thing assumes I'm using Outlook too. The sick thing is that it stands fair odds of being right-- that the recipient is a legitimate target.)
Then there are the "iWon" popup ads that you get if you surf to microsoft.com, and the ads threaded throughout WinXP. And don't forget-- It's better with the Butterfly™®©!
Welcome to the future, everybody. It's too late to get pissed off about it now.
Thank you very fucking much, Bill. You big genius you.
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