Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software

Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by niilzon on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:35AM (#10730641)

According to their criteria, Windows 10 totally falls in the UwS category ! :)

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Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by neerdowell on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:15AM (#10731852)

Chrome meets their criteria too, when bundled with other software, example: https://i.imgur.com/MakuHWC.png

It deceptively claims to increase web speeds, piggybacks on CCleaner's installation, doesn't inform the user about what it does, replaces the default web browser by default, "collects or transmits private information without the user’s knowledge", and it is bundled with other software.

The only characteristic that Chrome doesn't have is being difficult to remove.

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Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by throwawayukcyb on Monday December 14, 2015 @08:09AM (#10730781)

"It is bundled with other software and its presence is not disclosed."

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Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by niilzon on Monday December 14, 2015 @08:24AM (#10730838)

"It collects or transmits private information without the user’s knowledge"

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Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by SixSigma on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:48AM (#10730690)

I suspect that is what the Google ChromeOS team feels.

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Re:Year one: progress in the fight against Unwanted Software by chopin on Monday December 14, 2015 @08:12AM (#10730793)

To mine, too...

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