Screen take-over!! DO NOT LOOK AT ANY OF THESE SITES: http://images.bonzi.com/advertising/bonzibuddyfree.asp or bonzi.com. Ok, so when surfing before at Salon.com, I clicked on this commercial site for a virual companion called BonziBuddy. And bookmarked page about it for my virtual character section, since for research reasons I like to keep track of versions of those. But now found out that they have set up the site so that it automatically overwrites your "Home"-button URL and replaces it with the bonzi.com portal instead. Nowhere was I asked if I wanted this, though now I see that if I am "lucky", they ask me when leaving the site in a pop-up window if I want it as my home, so perhaps a bug but it doesn't matter. Definitely effective as commercial gimmick, but I am not sure it has the intended effected. Frankly, I am pretty pissed off by this, to me it borders on infringement of privacy, but there is not much I can do about it. Perhaps another good argument why I should no longer use Internet Explorer?
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:17