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Ask toolbar components are silently installed on OS X along with Java

6 pointsby ntakasakiabout 10 years ago

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jfuhrmanabout 10 years ago
YCombinator itself invested in bundleware.<p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130115/17343321692/why-are-y-combinator-andreessen-horowitz-backing-drive-by-toolbaradware-installer.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130115&#x2F;17343321692&#x2F;why-a...</a><p><a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.istartedsomething.com&#x2F;20130115&#x2F;y-combinator-is-fu...</a><p>And pg justified it.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5092711</a><p>&gt;The apps that get installed are &quot;crapware.&quot; This one seems a matter of opinion. A lot of the world&#x27;s most popular apps and sites seem like junk to us. But the users are choosing to install these things.<p>The users are choosing to install the original app, not the bundled crap. This is sad.