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Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam
nudone:
In this day-and-age, aren't we meant to create a facebook page and start a petition or campaign to highlight cnet's crass new system.
mouser:
Their blasted installer requires admin permissions! That totally destroys the show for all portable tools
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Good point. all of my original installers are zip-compatible and can simply be unzipped and used portably. The CNet installer destroys this.
The absolute worst part about this CNet travesty is that users will blame the authors for this bundled crap, assuming that the authors have purposefully wrapped their software in the CNet wrapper in exchange for financial gain.
mahesh2k:
In this day-and-age, aren't we meant to create a facebook page and start a petition or campaign to highlight cnet's crass new system.
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+1. Maybe sites like "Makeuseof" and "Lockergnome" and "Ghacks" can help spread the word ?
Stoic Joker:
In this day-and-age, aren't we meant to create a facebook page and start a petition or campaign to highlight cnet's crass new system.-nudone (August 23, 2011, 10:32 AM)
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Does it come with a screw cnet logo we could all put on our sites linking to the why article/page (for a little SEO boost).
40hz:
In this day-and-age, aren't we meant to create a facebook page and start a petition or campaign to highlight cnet's crass new system.
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+1. Maybe sites like "Makeuseof" and "Lockergnome" and "Ghacks" can help spread the word ?
-mahesh2k (August 23, 2011, 10:58 AM)
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Ghacks is already on it. So'sHackerNews.
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