Download.com - The New Home For Bloatware
Monday, August 22, 2011 by Jafo | Discussion: Personal Computing
Seems all new uploads there are being 'gift wrapped' with a proprietary installer...complete with toolbars etc that one 'must' opt out of if all you want is the proggy you were hoping to get.
Time perhaps to find a new source of your proggy downloads....
I'd checked out that flash cookie proggy and it had been wrapped....pain and a half.
More on the 'scam' here...
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Reply #42 Wednesday, August 24, 2011 4:23 PM
I say c ya c-net. I went there to upgrade my browser, and was given the option of a bundle, or nada. i did not look very hard for opt out thnigys. I saw the bundle and said, woah... if its a bundle, I don't want it.
Reply #43 Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:08 AM
I wasn't aware that somebody else was doing this bundling thing on ThemeXP... still, it was a pain in the bum and there were some packaged themes which crashed StyleXP and sometimes brought the whole system down... eg, BSOD. I know it wasn't the proogie itself as I'd used it without issue, but new themes were always going to be an issue and that's why I ended up with ODNT [before TGTSoft went guts up] to take away the Fisher Price look of XP. Eeeew, that was awful... given what WB can do.
BTW, Tom, I had most of your MSStyles until just recently.... no point keeping them now the proggie is dead, though I did convert them [for personal use] using Skinstudio. However, I see that you have been updating them to WB's yourself and, as you do, I've deleted them because your WB's are obviously gonna be superior to my feeble attempt at conversion. Keep up the good work. matey. you've done some real pearlers.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:10 AM