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Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact? by ZDNet’s George Ou
Claim: The popular urban legend debunking site Snopes is pushing Adware on to its readers.
Status: True (No longer true since their shaming from Alex Eckelberry and this blog on 1/28/2008).
Origins: Blogger Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes pointed out this post from Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt reporting how Snopes is pushing Zango Adware. Apparently it’s 1 of 2 popups that Snopes runs and the other popup is some sort of “registry cleaner” according to Eckelberry. I [More...]
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