Yahoo, Apple and Google are Abusing your Trust
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/17/2005 06:28 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ] · 1680 views
The idea of bundling software has been around for quite some time. For years AOL links and icons were bundled with just about everything. Here though it was merely icons and links attached to more frivolous applications. The recent trend with Malware force installing itself is much worse. This happening hidden from view, during a regular application's install has angered just about everyone who discovered it. But now companies are targeting the basic applications that make your computer work. They are abusing the trust built up with the fact that you are not likely to pay attention when installing basic applications from reputable companies.
Trust (Defined) -Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
If someone like myself can accidentally install something bundled with an application that I have been using for years, then you can definitely bet on the average user doing it.
Yahoo, Apple and Google are Abusing your Trust
Trust (Defined) -Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
If someone like myself can accidentally install something bundled with an application that I have been using for years, then you can definitely bet on the average user doing it.
Yahoo, Apple and Google are Abusing your Trust
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FaaR Unregistered |
#61261 Posted on: 06/18/2005 12:33 AM
OMG TEH SKY IS FALLING! Seriously now... A person should read up on what exactly it is they're installing on his or her PC, particulary these days. Anyone just blindly clicking OK to anything is likely to get burnt sooner or later. This author looks like a whiner to me. He ought to have informed himself better, but instead he shifts the blame like a little kid who fell over while riding his bike. Stupid bike! *kick* |
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Runner Unregistered |
#61262 Posted on: 06/18/2005 12:33 AM
Predictable, I can now identify these articles by the authors writing style, before I even click read more. At least I now have a way of avoiding this horseshit. |
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wb22gprix Unregistered |
#61269 Posted on: 06/18/2005 10:18 AM
Oh boy a blog, there has never been a more credible source of information. |
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Nemo Unregistered |
#61270 Posted on: 06/18/2005 10:24 AM
He has a valid poitn IMHO, I hate when compamies bundle stuff as well. He's also right that bundling should NOT be done as the default. OK perhaps it is old news and he should really read before he installs; but theres lots of n00bs to computing out there and without these issues being re-raised, how are they to know or learn. The comments made previous to mine seem very blinkered in their outlook. One idiot even moans because its a blog... whats that about??? A blog is just more info on the internet. FFS |
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antspants Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2003-03-24 |
#61271 Posted on: 06/18/2005 10:48 AM
Whats worse than Bundled software??? People here that Plagiarize other peoples research and post it on there website with no thanks or appreciation, let alone no effort! I like this site but you guts are thieves when it comes to stories and news |
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FaaR Unregistered |
#61292 Posted on: 06/19/2005 11:16 AM
Nemo, It's not that it's difficult to miss these bundles, at least the times I've encountered it. It says right there on the download screen at apple that itunes is included, only a complete idiot could miss it. Same with adobe acrobat 7; it says in plain text that some other crap (I can't remember what) comes with the download, how hard can it be to just read what you can see in front of your eyes??? I don't understand what you people are whining about. Simply read the text, it ISN'T difficult! It's not as if it's spyware anyway that's bundled in these downloads anyway, and if you don't like bundled crap (like me): DON'T download these programs! Acrobat 6 works just fine for me, and I don't need quicktime at all. That blogger dude is just out to create headlines for himself by crying 'wolf' where there is none. |
