(Via Slashdot) Gator forces site to remove Spyware label. Interesting. I don’t mind if someone installs Gator to hear about shopping bargains. The reason I don’t like Gator is that it arrives surreptitously (no, a IE do-you-want-to-install-GMT dialog is not good enough), and eats up RAM and CPU cycles on the user’s PC even when no browser is running.

For an example of a tracking application done right, check out the Google Toolbar– in its advanced mode, it does send data back to Google, but no sane person would call it spyware.

The day Gator stops using drive-by and pop-up downloads to distribute their product, I’ll stop calling it that name. Until then, in my opinion, Gator remains spyware.