Note: the MacOS part is false

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    He has been making Youtube videos for years, if he was a fraud, which you imply, someone would have found evidence of it

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      16 days ago

      He was actually convicted of fraud. Remember “Your computer has a virus. Install my (shady) app to fix it” banners in 2000s? That was also him.

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        16 days ago

        I hadn’t heard anything about this - quite interesting in context of the discussion, and also in that it only has a grain of truth.

        His company was sued for violations of the Consumer Protection Act (for making shitty misleading ‘you may have a virus! Click here for free scan’ popups and shady apps like ‘RegistryCleaner’, as you allude), which they settled for $150k plus $40k in court fees.

        He was never charged with fraud nor convicted - that is something much more serious.

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          16 days ago

          Ah so the guy is a POS, so why should I listen to him.

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            16 days ago

            You shouldn’t, and i don’t wish to either. I just don’t understand why there was a need to take his already shady and shitty behaviour and embellish it to say he was convicted of fraud, when the truth would have been adequate.