LGR Tech Tales - Bonzi Buddy: A Spyware's Tale
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Napishtim
People are commenting how this or that company does the same thing today without being without trouble. but this kind of scheme always worked in the same way, even before internet. Their technique is to gather as much money through shady means as possible. At some point they get sued, have to stop doing it or whatever. but they just move on. It was never a long-term, sustainable plan. On the contrary, it's designed to be adaptable and re-usable.
And that's exactly why LGR showed us that the creators of Bonzi still exist and still make ads.
Bonzi was a huge success. But it wasn't designed to exist forever.
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People are commenting how this or that company does the same thing today without being without trouble. but this kind of scheme always worked in the same way, even before internet. Their technique is to gather as much money through shady means as possible. At some point they get sued, have to stop doing it or whatever. but they just move on. It was never a long-term, sustainable plan. On the contrary, it's designed to be adaptable and re-usable.
And that's exactly why LGR showed us that the creators of Bonzi still exist and still make ads.
Bonzi was a huge success. But it wasn't designed to exist forever.
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rolingthunder86
personally my favorite program of this type was Proty Parrot. Proty came with my sound blaster card and used an updated version of the text assist engine. he's about as cute and funny as bonzy is a wreck. example: you can actually feed him, but if you try to give him the turkey he will say something to the effect of -I don't like turkey, even on thanksgiving! -
and yes, he also came with an updated version of the iconic Dr. Sbaittso program and the 2 kept having primitive conversations.
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personally my favorite program of this type was Proty Parrot. Proty came with my sound blaster card and used an updated version of the text assist engine. he's about as cute and funny as bonzy is a wreck. example: you can actually feed him, but if you try to give him the turkey he will say something to the effect of -I don't like turkey, even on thanksgiving! -
and yes, he also came with an updated version of the iconic Dr. Sbaittso program and the 2 kept having primitive conversations.
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Terestrasz
4: 46 god I remember making Bonzi Buddy saying -I have eaten [some large number] of bananas. and I don't feel sick. I think I'll have one more. It's wafer thin. - Then -Ooooh. That did it. Bleeeeegh-.
. but it didn't read the latter back so I kept hitting the 'say it' button so Bonzi said -oooooooh. That did it. Buh-leeeeeee-gggghhhh. - for like five minutes straight.
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4: 46 god I remember making Bonzi Buddy saying -I have eaten [some large number] of bananas. and I don't feel sick. I think I'll have one more. It's wafer thin. - Then -Ooooh. That did it. Bleeeeegh-.
. but it didn't read the latter back so I kept hitting the 'say it' button so Bonzi said -oooooooh. That did it. Buh-leeeeeee-gggghhhh. - for like five minutes straight.
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daffers234
My brother had experience with -Peedy, - which was attached to something on the school's computers. He said he hated it and turned it off as soon as possible every time it showed up. I don't think it was voiced on those computers though XD
I never liked the Rover dog and would always shut him off.
Looks like they had a stuffed toy of the purple Bonzi monkey too.
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My brother had experience with -Peedy, - which was attached to something on the school's computers. He said he hated it and turned it off as soon as possible every time it showed up. I don't think it was voiced on those computers though XD
I never liked the Rover dog and would always shut him off.
Looks like they had a stuffed toy of the purple Bonzi monkey too.
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--LOVE
Bonzi was like a child with talent being used by their parents: always eager to help by nature but his friendly, helpful, and somewhat talkative instincts were used for not so savory doings by his creators. I guess that-s why he-s a little more beloved today; no shady dealings left in the background, just a purple gorilla who just wants to be loved.
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Bonzi was like a child with talent being used by their parents: always eager to help by nature but his friendly, helpful, and somewhat talkative instincts were used for not so savory doings by his creators. I guess that-s why he-s a little more beloved today; no shady dealings left in the background, just a purple gorilla who just wants to be loved.
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makinbac0n
I loved that tool. Too bad it was deemed spyware and bad publicity. It was a great tool that's practices are used by every piece of software made today. Kind of hypocritical to ban software that does what every piece of software does that was released after it.
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I loved that tool. Too bad it was deemed spyware and bad publicity. It was a great tool that's practices are used by every piece of software made today. Kind of hypocritical to ban software that does what every piece of software does that was released after it.
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Tall
One thing I'd like to see is a completely open source bonzi buddy on github with all the spy and deceptive stuff removed. That way we all know we can trust it and can play around with it on our host OS rather it be MacOS, Linux, or Windows 10.
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One thing I'd like to see is a completely open source bonzi buddy on github with all the spy and deceptive stuff removed. That way we all know we can trust it and can play around with it on our host OS rather it be MacOS, Linux, or Windows 10.
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J.
So, what you're saying is that it was as big of a scam as Norton Antivirus. I had Norton on a computer that was never, ever hooked up to the internet, and yet it suddenly got viruses the day my free trial ran out.
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So, what you're saying is that it was as big of a scam as Norton Antivirus. I had Norton on a computer that was never, ever hooked up to the internet, and yet it suddenly got viruses the day my free trial ran out.
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liquid
i had one that was like jill from resident evil 3 that would like move to your mouse and do little animations like shooting or running, and it had a zombie dog one too if im remembering it right haha
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i had one that was like jill from resident evil 3 that would like move to your mouse and do little animations like shooting or running, and it had a zombie dog one too if im remembering it right haha
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acrimoniousJester
It's wild how Bonzi Buddy became the norm of the modern internet. Everything tracks you and everything wants personal info.
Yet none of this stuff is -spyware-. Yeah, right.
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It's wild how Bonzi Buddy became the norm of the modern internet. Everything tracks you and everything wants personal info.
Yet none of this stuff is -spyware-. Yeah, right.
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