Has there ever been anyone negatively affected by "botnets" or data mining done by well known and respected companies?
Just asking.
Off yourself.
>>54439561
No. It's just a meme.
The sell your data claims are also memes. No company that builds such a valuable database of consumer habits is going to just sell it away. Companies like Google just say "ok, if you want to advertise to people who like Pepsi products, it'll cost this much," or "if you want to target ads at households that make $100k+, and the wife is a homemaker, it'll cost this much."
Actual botnets do harvest and sell people's private info, but legitimate ad companies, shockingly, actually gather and buy info so they can sell ads.
>>54439642
Yeah I know, thanks for the responses btw.
I was just hoping someone would tell me otherwise.
>>54439561
Yes. I know someone who couldn't order pizza online because of the botnet.
ESEA, a CSGO league that requires users run their client and anticheat, slipped a bitcoin miner in the client and were running everyones GPUs at 100% to mine coins.
>>54440063
I said well known
>>54440187
CS is one of the most popular games on the planet, at any one time there's around 500,000 concurrent players on valve's servers alone.
ESEA is extremely well known, even if you don't know it.
>>54440063
Shit, if I wanted to be a profressional vydia player could I refuse to run any additional proprietary software in a match?
>>54440039
Go away RMS.
>>54440063
That's not data mining. That's an actual botnet.
