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Calling it "advertising" is a understatement here. You don't end up with the product just by consuming an ad. My parents never wanted to install Chrome. They s
by Krasnol 7y ago
Calling it "advertising" is a understatement here. You don't end up with the product just by consuming an ad.
My parents never wanted to install Chrome. They still ended up have it. It came with an update and they didn't uncheck a checkbox.
All their friends use Chrome also because of this despicable trick.
When this wave of bundled malware behavior by Google started and I had to uninstall it all over the people and family where I installed Firefox before, I stopped using it as a second browser too.
I whish someone would finally sue them for this. At least to give it the attention it should have.
- chii 7y ago> It came with an update and they didn't uncheck a checkbox what update? Windows update? Or did they download some software, and the installer came with chrome as well?
- Krasnol 7y agoWindows Update would have been the peak of madness... No it was some other software where it came with the installer. I assume it was Avast as I've seen it in an update already on a different computer.
- sstangl 7y agoIn the beginning, Chrome was bundled with Flash, and Flash was ubiquitous. When you installed or upgraded Flash, unless you checked a checkbox, Chrome would be installed.