Talk:Privacy-invasive software

message: How is that different from spyware? -- Kl4m T C 06:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: Although this looks like a good article idea, and the sources are good ones, I have flagged it because it looks like the majority of the content has been copied and pasted, with some formatting here and there. I verified at least one source PDF from which some entire paragraphs have been copied verbatim. This could be done correctly within a week, or else the page will be deleted. --DJ Phazer 10:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: I am concerned that the article is rather lengthy... or at least it needs to be split up more, especially the Retrospective section (I'd suggest subsections, and maybe sub-subsections if appropriate). The daunting length has actually discouraged me from really reading the whole thing, so I may have more informative comments after doing so, as well as more editing help.
Also, I would leave the wikify notice up for a while, since wiki-links are still rather sparse after the first few sections. (Of course, this may be an indication that it is too lengthy, but I'm sure there are important words/phrases that need linking.) --DJ Phazer talk 05:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lengthy? 

message: Would the more standard "reference" tags, etc. style be appropriate here? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes they would. The current citations look way too much like internal links. I've tagged the article as such. Stifle (talk) 10:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference style 

message: We have an interesting division between this article and the spyware article. This article deals with the economics and business aspects of invasive software, while the other one deals with the technical aspects. --FOo (talk) 21:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economic and technical articles 

message: It doesn't appear that the term "privacy-invasive software" is used very widely. The only sources I've been able to find who use it are a few researchers in Sweden. Most of the industry, as well as other researchers like Steve Gibson and Ben Edelman, use the term "spyware". --FOo (talk) 05:44, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use (or non-use) of this term 

message: This page repetitively uses "we" and sounds like a first person view. --174.118.40.209 (talk) 01:39, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, this article is quite terrible. "We hereby define". Probably some sort of company trying to advertise by slipping their company name in, or someone who believes that they can speak on behalf of Wikimedia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moony22 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-encyclopaedic sounding 

message: As indicated by the OTRS tag above, permission was given for parts of this article to be 'derived' (read as 'copied and pasted') from a 2007 publication by Martin Boldt. That document seems to be a degree/masters thesis.
To (possibly) complicate the issue, significant parts of that document (that are also in this WP article) were recycled into Mr. Boldt's 2010 doctoral dissertation, which has a copyright notice of its own:
:© 2010
:Martin Boldt
:School of Computing
:Publisher: Blekinge Institute of Technology
:Printed by Printfabriken, Karlskrona, Sweden 2010
:   
I don't know what the implications are for the earlier OTRS tag, WP:COPYVIO, etc, and it'll be a couple of days before I can get onto that. If anyone else knows or wants to find out what it all means ...that'd be great!
Wayne 16:15, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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