Yahoo has agreed to settlement talks in a class action filed by customers who say the search engine placed their premium-priced advertisements within spyware and other questionable software programs. The plaintiffs cited suits filed by the New York Attorney General's Office revealing that Yahoo had placed ads within the software programs of two spyware companies, claiming that the programs allow Yahoo to benefit financially because it charges customers for higher-priced ads targeted to specific consumers.
March 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Yahoo Inc. has agreed to settlement talks in a class action filed by customers who say the search engine placed their premium-priced advertisements within spyware and other questionable software programs.
The talks come soon after Yahoo filed a motion to disqualify one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, Ben Edelman, a spyware expert at Harvard University.
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