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Short-term is the word and seems to include more and more business policies, from software to ultra-liberal financial institutions but not only when it seems to me this hysteria for immediate satisfaction is becoming a way of life for individuals as well. This is not a business practice but a swindle in terms of ethics, at least. ![]() Whatever this “Hall of Shame” is more alive than ever. There was a dedicated forum called “Hall of shame” of software over at dozleng I think, the site which also provided the “Calendar Of Updates” (COU) page but which has disappeared I think. Thanks to articles like this one users may start being aware of such lousy practices but unfortunately many continue and will continue to get trapped in shameful software installation tactics. #Auslogics boostspeed 5.5.1.0 install#At the end of the install you have a window ‘Install additional software’ ( ) with a description in tiny font where you hardly can notice the “Click here” link which will indeed provide the details and user’s choices ( ) including as checked ByteFence software on the left and on the right the install of the Chromium browser together with setting Yahoo! as the default search engine and home-page for all installed browsers … The software hall of shame is increasing day after day but lately some companies as those mentioned in the article seem to have jumped to the next level, that of a total lack of complex when it comes to respect of the user.Īnother example is the ‘PDF Shaper’ application with its latest ‘Free 6.0’ version. Now You: What's your experience with this? What I dislike is if deception is used to get users to install these offers, and when companies won't accept the first no for an answer. I don't mind offers when it comes to the installation or upgrading of software on Windows. While the installation of Linux may be an option, it is something that many users shy away from for various reasons. Windows 7 and 8 users cannot just stop using the operating system, at least not easily. While it is relatively easy when it comes to software that you install, the case looks a bit different when it comes to the operating system. ![]() #Auslogics boostspeed 5.5.1.0 Pc#My colleague Wayne over on Betanews removed the Auslogics program from his PC as a result for instance. Some users may stop using software by companies that don't value user choice or use deceptive tactics to get users to install software they have no interest in. You can avoid those however as Oracle implemented an option in the settings to block those, but that requires that you know about it in first place. If Java is installed on your PC for instance, you may get third-party offers during installation or upgrades as well, and usually the same offer. You get three offers to install BoostSpeed, of which two may be overlooked depending on your computing experience.Īuslogics is not the only company that makes use of these tactics to get its software installed on user systems. Then, after unchecking that box and clicking finish, you are taken to the Auslogics website where yet another offer to download BoostSpeed is presented to you in an overlay on the site. The three bullet points on the page hint that it may be unrelated to the program you just installed, but only the hovering over the information icon next to the option reveals that leaving the box checked will install BoostSpeed on the system. If you install Duplicate File Finder for instance, you would expect the program to scan the PC for duplicates. A "run a free scan" checkbox is checked on that prompt and can be interpreted wrongly by the user depending on the program installed. ![]()
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