
WeatherBug is comparable with, if not better than, other popular desktop applications regarding resource usage.
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By default, the application is set to run when Windows starts because the core utility of the application is to alert customers of severe weather.

You can enable or disable the application's ability to start when Windows starts, and you can set the behavior of WeatherBug to start in full-screen mode or minimized to the system tray. The start-up behavior of WeatherBug is completely customizable.

We are focused on providing more ways to access WeatherBug information via open formats such as RSS, podcasts and APIs. My hope is that the public can move past this issue and focus on the future of WeatherBug.
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Data from the WeatherBug network is used not only by consumers but also by TV meteorologists, energy traders, emergency managers, the federal government and schools. The network of 8,000 professional-grade WeatherBug Tracking Stations that make up the WeatherBug network generate live information you cannot get from any other weather source. We're not an advertising or marketing company - we're an information company. The remaining functionality is to deliver live, local temperatures from the WeatherBug network and National Weather Service severe weather alerts to the system tray.Īll calls WeatherBug makes in the background are simple HTTP requests and are for the following purposes: 1) checking for weather and forecast information 2) checking for National Weather Service severe weather warnings and 3) checking for application "look and feel" settings for fonts, background graphics and URL locations. The WeatherBug application uses an Internet Explorer COM component to display Web pages. WeatherBug is simply a Web browser customized for smaller Web pages that fit within the application. We deserve credit for being proactive in ending this relationship before adware and spyware became hot topics.Īnother way to understand why WeatherBug is not spyware or adware is to appreciate how the application works from a technical standpoint. We moved quickly to end that relationship when it became clear Gator's business practices were not in line with ours.

One reason people may associate WeatherBug with spyware is a brief six-month business relationship we had with Gator more than four years ago. No major anti-spyware vendor classifies WeatherBug as spyware. Spyware and adware concerns: The simple truth is that WeatherBug is not spyware.
