I don't really like ranting and i do understand you guys want to earn a penny or two... But reading the "its optional so don't complain" answers to the people who show their annoyance, i just had to post something.
You say people should read when they install stuff and when they don't read it, it's their own fault they and up with malware. That's just a crappy argument. If you want people to support you out of their own free will, you would disable it by default and ASK to turn it on. So its my opinion you guys in fact hope people won't read it so they are suckered into installing something they do NOT want.
Yes, i installed the badware too when it was first included in the software. Why? I trusted the software developers since all the other versions were clean before. I bet this will be the case for most users who install it. Obviously that trust has disappeared now .
It has been reported the software has serious bugs when uninstalling (doesn't always work), still you choose to keep including it and turn it on by default just out of your selfish interest. You recommend using msconfig, adware removers etc for something that shouldn't happen in the first place and for something you can fix by turning the addware off by default. Yet it is repeated over and over again that software never is perfect, so uninstall problems are normal and no reason to complain.
Just look at it this way:
People download software for having a virtual drive and install it in good faith since you had a good rep. By not paying enough attention they end up with software with can only have adverse effects and serious problems which you don't care about (since you keep including it) and you think we should all accept this as normal because it is optional and you want to earn money?! This kind of reasoning isn't even legal where i live. Just because you put something in a contract, EULA or whatever, even if the user accepted it, doesn't make it legally binding. Giving product B while the customer expects product A could be considered misleading (i know, this is arguable).
My opinion is that you don't have the right to abuse the trust of your user by automatically installing something they don't want. If you wonder WHY people don't read all the stuff during installing, well its because there aren't that many soabs including this kind of cr*p in their products.
Well, thats just my opinion anyway.
You say people should read when they install stuff and when they don't read it, it's their own fault they and up with malware. That's just a crappy argument. If you want people to support you out of their own free will, you would disable it by default and ASK to turn it on. So its my opinion you guys in fact hope people won't read it so they are suckered into installing something they do NOT want.
Yes, i installed the badware too when it was first included in the software. Why? I trusted the software developers since all the other versions were clean before. I bet this will be the case for most users who install it. Obviously that trust has disappeared now .
It has been reported the software has serious bugs when uninstalling (doesn't always work), still you choose to keep including it and turn it on by default just out of your selfish interest. You recommend using msconfig, adware removers etc for something that shouldn't happen in the first place and for something you can fix by turning the addware off by default. Yet it is repeated over and over again that software never is perfect, so uninstall problems are normal and no reason to complain.
Just look at it this way:
People download software for having a virtual drive and install it in good faith since you had a good rep. By not paying enough attention they end up with software with can only have adverse effects and serious problems which you don't care about (since you keep including it) and you think we should all accept this as normal because it is optional and you want to earn money?! This kind of reasoning isn't even legal where i live. Just because you put something in a contract, EULA or whatever, even if the user accepted it, doesn't make it legally binding. Giving product B while the customer expects product A could be considered misleading (i know, this is arguable).
My opinion is that you don't have the right to abuse the trust of your user by automatically installing something they don't want. If you wonder WHY people don't read all the stuff during installing, well its because there aren't that many soabs including this kind of cr*p in their products.
Well, thats just my opinion anyway.
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