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by nugget 12y ago
<< Since when is it a thing that some laptop brands would put advertisements on your softwares? How come people still buy Lenovo if they do that? >>
For more than a decade, and almost all OEMs do this. Norton anti virus was the most widely distributed software in the late 00s, paying close to a dollar per install to OEM partners, and then aggressively advertising paid upgrades to users.
- mschuster91 12y agoBack in the old days, Norton was the first thing I killed off of customer's PCs. Funny how much faster the machines were even after installing another antivirus.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoIndeed. And not that it was easy to kill; I'm pretty sure it had some hardcoded delays in it, because I can't think of another program requiring so much time and annoyance to remove. And in my books, this is clearly malicious behaviour from a corporation - think of all those productive hours in the entire world wasted because someone decided to ship some crap that then customers had to remove themselves to fix performance. I know it's capitalism, that people are allowed and encouraged to fight with each other (er, compete) for money, but at least let's be explicit about it. It's funny how a company can punch you in the face and make you think it is normal. It's not. You just got punched in the face, you have a right to retaliate.