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Adward vs Adware - What's the difference?

adward | adware |

As nouns the difference between adward and adware

is that adward is while adware is (computing) a software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free) some adware programs can include spyware.

adward

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • Faint-heart fools, whom shew of peril hard / Could terrify from Fortune's fair adward . — Spenser.
    (Webster 1913)

    adware

    English

    (wikipedia adware)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.

    • Related terms

    * abandonware * baitware * crippleware * demoware * donationware * freeware * malware * postcardware * shareware * spyware * trialware

    See also

    * free software * open-source software * public domain software