Some people, me included, were a little peeved when America Online added its advertising bots to all Buddy Lists this week:
I mean, it’s bad enough we have full volume flash ads on the Buddy List window with the obligatory mouseover pop under ads and the insistent AOL Today or their equivalents, but now we get AOL adding things to our Buddy List. What’s next? Removing other bots for its advertisers’ competitors or banning screen names with product names in them? Or is it….the “Words In Your Mouth” campaign?!
How far fetched is this? Don’t think about it, because it’s not.
