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Junkware
Flash player... with "McAfee security scan", which I assume is scareware. Dear Adobe, isn't your entire strategy to make Flash so dominant that HTML5 doesn't take off? Why risk that ship for a ha'porth of tar?
Worse yet, Java updates with the Ask toolbar. Is it really, honestly, worth the microscopic impact on Oracle's bottom line to get a reputation for sneaking borderline malware onto people's computers (other than Oracle Financials, ha ha). I assumed that junk was because Sun was desperate for cash and Oracle would rightly put a stop to it after the takeover.
They aren't the only ones... and that even makes the strategy less effective, in that I assume any piece of Windows software from a large corporate will at some point ask me about sneaking some junkware on, and am alert to it. Bah.
Worse yet, Java updates with the Ask toolbar. Is it really, honestly, worth the microscopic impact on Oracle's bottom line to get a reputation for sneaking borderline malware onto people's computers (other than Oracle Financials, ha ha). I assumed that junk was because Sun was desperate for cash and Oracle would rightly put a stop to it after the takeover.
They aren't the only ones... and that even makes the strategy less effective, in that I assume any piece of Windows software from a large corporate will at some point ask me about sneaking some junkware on, and am alert to it. Bah.
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