Something wicked (or evil) has come to Betanews...

These two comments are stupid (they're from Betanews):

By sanawar
posted Aug 30, 2006 - 8:37 PM
@ BetaBryce:Do you really want us to fall for this after all the blunders that AOL has made over the years. AOL rightfully falls under the category of malware or badware as you may want to call it. I am not sure why it took so long for such a definition being assigned to AOL and almost all its products. I myself have been a victim of unnecessary bloated and multiple program installations when I intended to only install just 1 single program. AOL routinely installs bunch of icons on the desktop and favorites and other unnecessary stuff without asking or providing prompts for the same. There is no doubt in my mind that for the large part, AOL software should certainly be labeled as malware/badware and should be treated as such.


By cranbers
posted Aug 30, 2006 - 7:22 PM
I see little point in using this thing. Why would I need to? I imagine just like their 9.0 client install it installs 8 different programs that slow down your computer and are just plain annoying and not really necessary. AOL client was great back in 1998 when the Internet was a mystery to most people and they needed a little help. But now days almost who is interested has a computer and at least knows someone who knows them well enough to educate and teach them. So sorry AOL, I have no doubt you will be dust in the wind within 5 years. There is just too much competition and you guys stays on the horse too long and it's too late to jump off before it takes the jump off the cliff. The saddest thing is they have their beta center engineers advertising it in the forums now. either betabrace is getting paid to post in forums now or he is worried about his job. Better jump ship before your fired betabrace.

It's sad to know that some people can't get over themselves and just be negative about something they don't know anything about.