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Bonzi Buddy was widely classified as spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

But if you read the description of its spyware behaviour from a current perspective, it's not that different from the telemetry that’s implemented everywhere and Windows bugging you to use Bing as a search engine.



Yes, Bonzi Buddy was spyware. It's not that what they were doing was OK, but rather that the industry has normalized spyware.


Was wild reading the talk page for that and seeing Jimbo Wales weighing in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:BonziBuddy




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