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[Johngpov]

I thought the apps and the apps store where the crapware!

[LiveBrianD]

Whenever I install any apps with things like those (Opencandy, for instance), I just disable the network adapter. Simple, and it prevents it from contacting the ad server and being able to install additional junk. At least in the case of Opencandy, it prevents me from getting any suggestions for crap to begin with.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 15 January 2013 - 09:01 PM

[PFBrunsdpfx]

As an iOS user, I can tell you that quite a few free apps push you to install other apps, though they just don't do it during the installation phase. Back when OpenFeint was around, though, games REALLY pushed you to use it. There's also the fact that ad-supported games display popups between rounds and ad banners on screen during gameplay wherever practical--and sometimes where it isn't, in a couple of cases obscuring gameplay.

[ronin7752]

Jared, M$ *already* installs third-party crapware with some of its products, *and* installs some of *its own* products *as* third-party crapware. What makes you think an M$ "Windows Store" isn't going to continue to use and allow this practice?

[ronin7752]

BTW, My definition of "third party crapware" is *any* application that "piggy-backs" itself onto an unrelated installation, for the purpose of making extra profit for the vendor of the primary program. Whether or not an "opt-out" is used.

This *includes* Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, Ask Toolbar, McAffee Security Scan, and *many* others -- which are piggybacked by vendors such as Adobe, Oracle, M$, and *many* others...

It's a scumbag practice that will certain *not* be stopped within a "Windows Store."

[gyffesgyffeshcr8]

Totally loathe these add-ons.. especially some of the ways they try and tease you into accepting... "Are you sure you want to not re-uninstall the installer's de-uninstaller?" CANCEL OK

(fine print) "pressing either ok or cancel counts as agreement to install this [censored], which will spread, cancer-like, throughout your system..."

It's one of the reasons I so actively urge people to use ninite.com; in those rare instances where an installer IS wrapped in crap, Ninite rejects the offering for you, no extra button pushes needed, no chance of missing a checkbox possible.

[Guitar1969]

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I thought the apps and the apps store where the crapware!

I thought the same thing. As a Windows RT user, I can attest that most of Windows Store in its current state is "Crapware"

[davew9897]

The biggest and most annoying piece of crapware on my new Windows 8 computer is: Windows 8. The problem with a company store is that it will not tolerate competition with company products and will want those it tolerates to use the company interface. On both accounts, I will never buy from a Microsoft store. In fact, my next computer will not be one using a Microsoft OS (unless they revert to a user friendly interface - like Windows 7 and Office 2003). Yeah, I've been using Windows quite a while and am set in my ways. I don't see an advantage of change just to change things. Improvement is great but gratuitous change is a pain in the butt. And everything done since Ballmer has taken over has been nothing but a pain in the butt.