Rule changes
Microsoft has put the word out to developers that ad injection software that uses any of a variety of man-in-the-middle (MiTM) techniques — injection by proxy, changing DNS settings, network layer manipulation, and so forth — will run afoul of its updated adware rules.
“We’re updating our Adware objective criteria to require that programs that create advertisements in browsers must only use the browsers’ supported extensibility model for installation, execution, disabling, and removal,” Microsoft stated …read more
