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Does that mean 'does not equal' or 'equals'? Sorry, I've just never seen that before

Some people regard certain tracking cookies as spyware though. =/ I personally don't care to tell the truth.

It means not equals (just an equals with a / through it, I prefer != so I don't have to think about it, hee). To me tracking cookies are not spyware, they're not even a major annoyance.

But then again, I use firefox so I don't even get them anymore

No spyware has been created that can get past Firefox

Recently many flaws have been found in Firefox though, and Symantec claims that it now has more vulnerabilities than IE.

Lies all lies, its Microsoft propaganda I tell you!!!!
If so thats why Firefox has been releasing securty updated recently

Thanks for clearing that up Trick

Oh and yeah, about Firefox... well Microsoft has to combat it somehow. It's 'award winning' browser has just recently been beaten So expect a massive overhaul with IE as MS tries to take back the browser market.

Now, about Firefox, the one reason it'll be safer is because it's Open Source, and updates are released at least once a month, if not 3 or 4 times a month.

least its easy to get rid of the spy cookies i'm happy i pay for premium though i dont know how i'd play with all the popups i run so much t once taht any additional download makes my comp cry

ive never gotten anything like that on neo, strange an anti neopian comes to comment on this one topic

I disagree.
Neopets isn't just in it for profit.
If they didn't care about their users, they wouldn't have lifted one finger for the site.
They do care about the users.
They do what is the best for us, they want us to have fun.
You don't know how horrible it is to code all those things.
Don't speak just because you want to hear yourself.

And that's why they have ads all over their site? If they weren't in it for the profit, wouldn't they still only have the neopets banners?

I find it rather stereotypical and also rather prejudiced of some people to simply say Neopets doesn't care about it's users as a whole. I believe Adam and Donna truely and sincerely care about their users. Do you think they wanted the banners ads all over the site? Do you think Adam, Donna, the wonderful programmers, the under-paid monitors, and the fantastic artists are all in it for the money? Heck, they've said many times that they're underpaid. So it's obviously not all for the money.

If you want to blame the advertisements and the uncaring stereotype on someone, blame it on Doug Dohring, NOT TNT as a whole. I think it's extremely offensive, rude, and puts them down when they've had absolutely nothing to do with some of the money decisions that occur.

I am not directing this at anyone personally, but I always hate to see when people are degrading TNT's reputation and blaming all of the money making on them.

Why not just use Ad-Block on firefox?
It works wonders on all sites!
I reccommend you try it out...

I have never gotten a pop up from Neopets.
None on IE, none on Firefox, none on MSN.

I have gotten pop-ups from neo and sometimes worse things. As for spywhere look out for:

Doubleclick.net
advertising.com
tribalfusion.com

and a few others. My Spybot S & D flags them as spyware.

I'll ditto this.

This isn't TNT. This is Dougy boy and the other fat cats at the top who have yet to spend more than an hour on their own site. They are the ones selling out any artistic integrity that the site once had.