Deceptive Toolbar Practices

For all the grief we've given companies who bundle third-party junk with their products over the years, I'm seeing a really disturbing trend in the software space. Yahoo and Google seem to be desperate to get their toolbar on my computer in a manner that borders on deceptive. I'm not talking about downloading the toolbar directly from Yahoo or Google. I'm not even talking about downloading the version of Firefox that clearly tells users it includes the Google Toolbar. I'm talking about instances where I download one application, only to find out it's trying to get me to opt out of installing a toolbar from either Yahoo or Google. These are tactics learned from the spyware industry.

21:32:27 February 20, 2006, Monday (PST) Source: Jake Ludington's Digital Lifestyle

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