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28-10-2010, 23:54
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Does anyone use one of the many annoying toolbars available?
I mean, it seems a lot of websites and software you download is trying to get you to download a toolbar of some sort.
AVG / Crawler Yahoo DVD Video soft Some seem completly pointless. If I installed them all there wouldn't be any space to view webpages in Internet explorer. What ones do you have if any? Do these companies make money of the installation of toolbars? |
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28-10-2010, 23:58
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I have Google and only as I can put some shortcuts on it easily.
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29-10-2010, 00:12
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One actual useful one I have just rediscovered is Prefbar, it allows you to do a tonne of stuff, enable/disable flash, javascript, java, images, popups, pipelining, clear cookies, cache, history, easy access to different browser useragents and proxies, the clincher for me is you can now use it as a dropdown menu from an icon in the navigation bar rather than just as a toolbar. Full list of buttons here, and custom buttons. As for the ones that try and piggy back install on other things, avoid like the plague
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29-10-2010, 00:15
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29-10-2010, 00:15
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No. They're a waste of space and just slow things down.
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29-10-2010, 00:19
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and a pain to get shoot of, should be illeagal ..
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29-10-2010, 10:24
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Judging by the number of software installers that try to slip the installation of the yahoo toolbar, they're getting kickbacks from it. It's probably only 2 cents each time. Pitiful really. Of course it's potentially quite lucrative to direct all your searches through their information portal...
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29-10-2010, 10:34
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The one from Vatican, Nun
 I find them pointless. What pisses me off, too, that every bloody programme now has an autoupdate feature, a small exe started at the startup waiting for the update ready in a year or so  Thank God for msconfig.
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29-10-2010, 12:19
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Lots of stuff pushes the Yahoo toolbar on me, but it's always easy to untick the box and that one DOES un-install. I know some others are more insidious.
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29-10-2010, 19:14
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29-10-2010, 19:21
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29-10-2010, 19:26
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What annoys me is when you untick the option to install a toolbar and it still f**king installs.
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29-10-2010, 19:27
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29-10-2010, 19:47
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29-10-2010, 20:04
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tbf the stumbleupon toolbar is funkin mint
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29-10-2010, 21:07
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29-10-2010, 22:32
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I've never used a Toolbar, and I don't plan on ever using one.
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29-10-2010, 22:51
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I never install them to begin with.
I get annoyed that software comes with them bundled, too. However, if you want something free that's the price you pay, I guess. Still, I just deselect them (it's usually the Ask Toolbar, too) The only "toolbar" I have is the Firefox default one where I can add my own engines if I want. |
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30-10-2010, 00:35
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I think my dad has the AVG Toolbar, saw it on his Firefox the other day. Thankfully I don't have any on the Mac.
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30-10-2010, 08:51
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I can see my internet perfectly fine using toolbars. Not sure what the OP is on about
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30-10-2010, 09:03
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30-10-2010, 12:27
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Another vote for Stumbleupon.
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16-06-2012, 15:32
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Bumping this old thread as I think toolbars are bloody evil and are getting sneakier and sneakier when it comes to tricking you into installing them. They are just spywear and I don't understand why anyone remotely 'net savvy would let one get on their computer while they had a say in the matter.
Firefox tried to force its Samfind toolbar on me today. I removed it right away. If I wanted it I would have sodding well found it and installed it myself. It's the fact that they're practically forced on us these days that I hate. It's invasive and arrogant. |
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16-06-2012, 16:26
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The reason why they are there is obviously as a source of revenue, without which they would not survive. A large enough percentage of users will just click 'next' and so it continues. |
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16-06-2012, 16:44
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only bars I typically add are the ones via mozilla addons which have a disable button which I place at end of bookmarks toolbar .... web developer & stumbleupon .... add on toolbars from other sources are almost all redundant now & only serve as adware .... saying that I used to have google toolbar in my very rarely used ie9 install just to make ie9 usable but no longer directly use ie9 nowadays
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