Bundled crap
Bleh. Sun are going to be bundling a trial of Carbonite backup with Java runtime downloads >< They've already got that stupid Yahoo toolbar in there. This isn't specific to Sun, Java or Carbonite. Everybody seems to feel the need to bundle in random crap with their software in the hopes that you'll blindly install it.
What happened to the days of downloading something and just getting what you downloaded? I know that they're getting commission on everything trial or ad click but its just annoying to have to deal with all this junk.
What happened to the days of downloading something and just getting what you downloaded? I know that they're getting commission on everything trial or ad click but its just annoying to have to deal with all this junk.
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dynamik
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I can't think of anything that made me madder than when Desktop Stripper changed my toolbars. Unacceptable!
Seriously though, I know what you mean. It's like Apple trying to sneak in Safari with iTunes. No thanks! -
laidbackfreak
Member Posts: 991
right there with you on that, have noticed more and more with software installs, I'm forever un-ticking boxes for options(extra software\toolbars) that I dont want.
Kick backs huh.... they suck unless there coming my way of course
if I say something that can be taken one of two ways and one of them offends, I usually mean the other one :-) -
networker050184
Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
I feel your pain. At least if you know what you are doing you can disable the extra crap. I fixed my father-in-law's computer not too long ago and he had so many damn tool bars on his internet explorer there was hardly any room for the web page to display. I sh*t you not, he had at least 15 tool bars that he had no idea where they came from.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made. -
msteinhilber
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This was the maximum I was able to install when I tried... toolbars are great, my browser was the uber search machine!!
http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/37478-there-limitation-how-many-toolbars-you-can.html -
NetAdmin2436
Member Posts: 1,076
@ Dynamik's screen shot image
Yeah, that's crazy. I can't believe they are using Winzip on a Windows XP computer.
WIP: CCENT/CCNA (.....probably) -
networker050184
Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
Yep it looked pretty much like that lol.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made.
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Forsaken_GA
Member Posts: 4,024
strangely enough, I don't have any of these issues with Ubuntu.
apt-get
