Here is some great, hard hitting stuff about how Spyware and Adware negatively impacts our industry. Thanks to Wayne Porter for sharing this important info. As more and more companies take a stand, change will come.

Here are some excerpts. Click the link below to read the full article.

“Please note that no names are mentioned in the piece below. It simply details the dangers of spyware/adware in general. I feel the message for marketers is of the utmost importance….”

Text is quoted from Pesach Lattin a publisher of a newsletter

“As the owner of several online advertising companies and the owner of the top newsletter in the industry, it’s not uncommon for me to try new ventures and new advertising techniques. Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes of my career was ever getting involved with any company remotely associated with Adware/Spyware. While there is a lot of money there, it’s like playing with Beelzebub: there is no such thing as a deal that benefits you. One of the reasons ADBUMb has banned adware advertisements is that we’ve come to the conclusion that most of the industry is plagued with complete illegitimacy…”

“My publication no longer will take your junk, and soon companies like MediaPost and MarketingVox will wake-up and ban your ads also. I’m pretty confident that soon we’ll hear about your companies being shut down, your assets seized and your CEO’s arrested. (If you work for these companies, note that you could be put in jail too.) Most of us in the legit part of the industry don’t want to have anything to do with you, want you to disappear, don’t want to read about you anymore, and definitely don’t want you pretending to be a part of our great industry.”

Read the entire article below:
Wayne Porter – Hardcore Advice on Adware/Spyware From the Inside