Dave Plummer
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And it would rotate it in.
And I didn't set a cap on it.
I came back on Monday and I saw I had spent like $10,000 in banner ads.
I was like, holy crap, how am I gonna explain this to my wife?
This is a bug, it's a mistake, it was my fault.
And I looked at the sales and it had made like $38,000 worth of sales.
And I was like, holy cow.
So all I have to do is scale that at some point and basically did that for the next several years.
And the reason we got in trouble was the AG came in and they had... Well, I was blown away because they had like 12 court claims of action and 10 of them were...
which to me as a person with autism, I couldn't get past.
It's like, I know these 10 things are absolutely not true.
Why are we even here talking about them?
And then all they care is the two things that might be true.
And the two things that might be true were that it was a 30-day trial version.
And after your 30 days were up, it would then, if you continued to run it and not buy it or uninstall it, it would remind you once a day, not like every 10 minutes, but once a day or every time you booted your computer at most once a day.
And the AG contended that was too often.
It amounted to spam.
And so we agreed with them to limit it to once a week, I believe.
And, you know, there had to be a button to just uninstall with one click.
So we did those kinds of things.