Note: the MacOS part is false

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    4 days ago

    He has been making Youtube videos for years, if he was a fraud, which you imply, someone would have found evidence of it

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      3 days ago

      He was actually convicted of fraud. Remember “Your computer has a virus. Install my (shady) app to fix it” banners in 2000s? That was also him.

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        I hadn’t heard anything about this - quite interesting in context of the discussion, and also in that it only has a grain of truth.

        His company was sued for violations of the Consumer Protection Act (for making shitty misleading ‘you may have a virus! Click here for free scan’ popups and shady apps like ‘RegistryCleaner’, as you allude), which they settled for $150k plus $40k in court fees.

        He was never charged with fraud nor convicted - that is something much more serious.

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          3 days ago

          Ah so the guy is a POS, so why should I listen to him.

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            3 days ago

            You shouldn’t, and i don’t wish to either. I just don’t understand why there was a need to take his already shady and shitty behaviour and embellish it to say he was convicted of fraud, when the truth would have been adequate.

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      3 days ago

      Took years for pirate software to be outed as a fraud, he also ran a YouTube channel for years pretending to have been a game dev at blizzard.

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        3 days ago

        Except Pirate isn’t fraud as in stolen valor, in the case of him it was just the house of cards of over embellishments finally caught up with him.

        David was in Microsoft early and for a long time. Thinking he’s lying about that part is a bit rich.