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AOL Gets Sued
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Previous subscribers to American Online in the San Francisco area have filed a lawsuit against the internet service provider for unlawfully charging users of merchandise that was not ordered. The users are also complaining of AOL's sale's tactics which use pop-ups upon logging onto the service.
Get more at ZDNet.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
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Originally posted by TotalRecall
The users are also complaining of AOL's sale's tactics which use pop-ups upon logging onto the service.
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Hehee, they've been doing that for as long as I can remember ... I used AOL in 1996, and there were already pop-ups back then...
Posted by: SKYHN
Ok I can understand filing a lawsuit for "unlawfully charging users of merchandise that was not ordered" but these "Pop-ups" they speak of are not really popups.
I am an Aol user, im not gonna be all "I Love Aol" because I know there are better ISP's out there, but its all I can get in my area, Broadband Wise. This is the "Pop-ups" they are refering to Click Here. You can close both of those and once they are closed they do not come up again til you sign on again. The small one only shows up for DSL users. They have maybe 2 or 3 ads on each one, the rest of it is news stories.
In Aol 7.0, only the middle one comes up. I use 6.0 cuz 7.0 sucks for DSL as of right now(they havent made it fully DSL compliant yet). Theres another thing that you can tell Aol to give you pop-ups. If you go into Settings->Marketing there are many options in there for Aol to periodically give you pop-ups, email, snail mail and other stuff. But all of those options can be turned off, so you dont have to be bothered if you dont want to, they are off by default.
So unless these people are thinking every pop-up they get on every website is from Aol, or they turned on those marketing tools, they are wrong in their accusastions.
Posted by: tkron
A few years ago, one of my daughters friends installed AOL 5.0 on her computer without her permission. They thought they were doing here a favor. Unfortuneately they replied yes to make AOL the default connection to the internet. When she decided she did not like or want to keep the service after the trial period she uninstalled AOL. after the uninstall, she could connect to her old ISP, but no running software (outlook, outlook express other email program, IE, Diablo or anything else) would recognize she had an internet connection. I went in and reset everything, but it still wouldn't work, even Wargasm took a look at her machine and reset the same things I had reset, but he could not get it to work either. We had to reinstall the operating system to get DUN working again.
Posted by: Gunslinger
The thing about AOL of old (as perhaps even the newer versions), is if you set AOL to be your default, it does more than just making it self the number 1 connection, it actually uninstalls all other dial-up adapters currently installed. Even after uninstalling AOL, you still had to go back and remove the AOL Adapter, and reinstall your normal dial-up adapter.
Took me a while to figure that out when I used AOL back in the day.
Of course, this may be what you and Wargy tried.
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