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I tried installing something ostensibly legitimate from download.com. The "download.com installer" masked the opt-in of 3 separate craps with EULA acceptance p
by AjithAntony 13y ago
I tried installing something ostensibly legitimate from download.com. The "download.com installer" masked the opt-in of 3 separate craps with EULA acceptance prompts. If I was just slightly less paranoid about this stuff, I would have clicked through all of them.
And to be clear, they were not checkboxes, or "custom install" options. They were straight-up walls of text in tiny textareas, with only "accept" and "decline" buttons.
My instinct was to decline them, and they just kept coming. After I dismissed the final crap, the installer then downloaded the real installer for the app I was trying to install.
- FireBeyond 13y agoHaving moved to OSX, but by no means a zealot, there are many things I miss about Windows. This - download.com and others - is absolutely not one of them.