I found a program named trickler.exe on my home PC last night and did a google search and found out it’s spyware and downloaded an anti-spyware program and deleted it and a bunch of related files. The anti-spyware program is probably spying on me now too, so I suppose I’ll delete that eventually. I’m rather sick of internet advertising right now, pop-ups and pop-unders and those fucking windows that take over your entire PC and you have to hit control+alt+delete and turn them off that way; I am nostalgic for the good old-fashioned blinking banner ads that nearly trigger gran mal seizures. Beats me what a person could do about this, though.

I mean, require consent? Like, require such wares that access the internet from your PC to ask permission first? Good luck. Ban individuals who use such stuff from ever being active on the internet again? We’ve all been trolls at one time or another, right? We all know how easy it is to fake an identity.

I’m also sick of advertising in general. Advertising and spin and all forms of dishonesty. I don’t think advertising is free speech and don’t think it should be protected as such. Advertising is not supplying the consumer with information to make an educated choice, it is influencing behavior by selling attitudes. Political advertising is the worst, perhaps, undermining democracy. How democratic politicians can honestly support advertising and the ideal of democracy at the same time is beyond me.

While we’re on the subject, I’d like to invite any potential advertisers interested in advertising at Feral Living or Raising Hell to contact me at miguel@rhzine.com.