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Ctrl Alt Del 123:
http://computerbytesman.com/privacy/realjb.htm

Real Player is WORSE than WMP. Atleast with WMP, you can turn off it from phoning home, and as for the phoning home when watching DVD's? It's completely anonymous. http://computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm

Vincent:
So far I think MS has done a good job with WMP... except for the fact that only XP received the WMP8 upgrade. RealPlayer I must say is horrible... RealPlayer 8 was loaded up on more ads than a porn site and RealONE integrates itself into the OS, hides itself from the program manager and delivers daily spam popups down by the taskbar even when it's supposedly not running. As far as media players go, WMP and QuickTime are the only two I'll touch... most sites have their media in QT and WM anyway.

voidmain:
RealPlayer doesn't do any of that under Linux. And how can it spam you under Windows if you don't give them your email address? Whenever some app asks for my email address I tell it "[email protected]".

[ May 20, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Vincent:
RealONE has a built-in notification system used show balloon-style popups near the taskbar, it was originally intended to provide notification of RealONE updates but it is also used to display links to their sponser's garbage. In other words, it hides itself from the OS and stays in constnat communication with the RealONE servers in order to obtain those links and updates.

Ctrl Alt Del 123:
I just deleted the Notification service to shut the little fukker up.

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