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Exactly this. I'm often advising people to install VLC when they are having problems with Windows Media Player, but whenever I tell them to google for it on the
by jiggy2011 14y ago
Exactly this. I'm often advising people to install VLC when they are having problems with Windows Media Player, but whenever I tell them to google for it on their own they end up with some toolbar infested crap.
So now I specifically instruct them to go to videolan.org.
- kbutler 14y agoGoogling for "vlc", "vlc download", or "vlc player", the top 3-4 results are all to videolan.org. Ads may distort this for some users, though...
- jiggy2011 14y agoyes, this didn't always used to be the case though. Hopefully some google algo tweaks are working to help.
- rogerdpack 14y agoYes unfortunately unless you have adbock installed the "first" results in a google search for "vlc" are typical for the (adware, spammy) sites.
- jbk 14y agoMaybe because I spent almost 3 hours per week to clean it.
- tobylane 14y agoWhat do you do, what proportion of your time is advancing yours or flagging them?
- socialist_coder 14y agoWow. That really sucks man. I hope something changes where you don't have to do this forever. I told my Dad's wife to download VLC and she ended up with the crapware version too. I didn't even realize they existed until then. I was shocked =( You have my sympathies.
- jbk 14y agoThanks :)
- socialist_coder 14y agoDo you know if the Intel App-Up site is legit or do they also bundle the crapware installers? http://www.appup.com/app-details/vlc?edgSrcID=398114176 http://www.appup.com/app-details/vlc?edgSrcID=398114176 It's the first thing I see for "VLC" when I turned off Ad Block.
- jbk 14y agoCompletely free, no adware, no spyware and full source is provided. This is rare :)
- makomk 14y agoProbably the ads. For a while, Google helped made this even worse by paying companies like Dell to set the default search on new PCs to specially-customised version of Google with far more prominent ads that were less clearly distinguished from normal search results.
- creativityland 14y agoWow. Source?
- eitland 14y agoDell has been installing crap since at least 2006/07. Thats when I started wondering why all new PCs at a certain company where all infected just few days after purchase. Then I realized this thing (myway?) was being installed by default. I really didn't think it was ever a Google product though. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- Symmetry 14y agoTrue now, but it wasn't true a year ago when I installed Windows 7.
- robot 14y agovideolan.org has a pretty confusing name. I bet if it was vlcplayer.com it would get better downloads.
- slowpoke 14y agoOn your Google, with your results, with your search history and thus in your specific filter bubble. Fuck, people, don't you get this already? There is no n-th result on Google. Don't act like there is.
- tterrace 14y agoThis just happened to my friend yesterday when I told him to install VLC. I think he may have clicked an ad instead of the first search result. I saw three pages for different add-ons and toolbars with several pre-checked checkboxes apiece. After unchecking and clicking through it just exited (hopefully) and launched the VLC install program.