Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review

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From: pissed off
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:29

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"Jim Turner" <kaijyu@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> >
> I don't approve of spyware, corporate or otherwise. My point is that
> it is immature and irrational to remove spyware that TTax needs to
> run, and then complain when TTax doesn't run.

The program "needs" the spyware because Intuit has engineered it that way.
The spyware is not integral to the functioning of the software, it is
integral to Intuit's desire to spy on its customers. You say you "don't
approve of spyware," and in the same breath you say that it is "immature" to
remove it, or to complain about it. You are a shill for Intuit.



> If you don't want to run cdilla, don't run TTax. Simple. Every time
> you run TTax, and reactivate it, Cdilla runs.

Boy, you're really good at stating the obvious. Have you ever thought of a
career as a second-grade teacher? Yes, I know how it works, and I haven't
use Turbo Tax since I discovered the nature and extent of the issue. I am
hoping that Intuit isn't actually intent upon committing corporate suicide,
and will reverse themselves soon. If they do not, then I will abandon Turbo
Tax and Quicken.



> By doing that you run
> the spyware by choice. Then you get to complain about it. You delete
> Cdilla, but run reactivate TTax later, hoping that "this time, cdilla
> won't be required". You know that you will have to reactivate TTax
> after you remove Cdilla before you can use TTax again, but still you
> remove Cdilla. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Seems pointless to me.

But you approve of spyware. I don't.



> Me, I don't run any software that requires activation, including TTax.
> I avoid spyware. I don't run software that requires spyware, and then
> complain the spyware is there. I find alternatives.

You are a corporate shill. You are saying that it's wrong to complain about
a corporate abuse.

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