Annoyware

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Software that annoys the user, as by displaying constant advertisements or reminders to register. informal, uncountable

    "[…]where you should put the disclaimer for software (somewhere that the user sees it when they start the program, tho' I wouldn't do that, just put it in the 'about' box like the mpgn.com guy suggests -- otherwise, having something pop up makes it annoyware, IMHO)."

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hasslewarenagware

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"[…]where you should put the disclaimer for software (somewhere that the user sees it when they start the program, tho' I wouldn't do that, just put it in the 'about' box like the mpgn.com guy suggests -- otherwise, having something pop up makes it annoyware, IMHO)."

Etymology

From annoy + -ware.

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