okay here let's just test out your internet browser and oh oh my eyes it
burns oh the toolbars this is probably a
pretty familiar experience if you have ever worked in a computer repair shop or
helped a less tech-savvy member of your family fix an issue with their computer
browser toolbars pre-installed programs Auto starting apps and tools that change
your default search engine no I don't want to use ask gum.com are referred to
as crapware and blow Weare many people use these terms interchangeably but I
think there's actually a pretty important distinction between them
crapware is used to describe software that has no sensible use like those
awful toolbars that take up half the browser with sponsored links to sites
you would never want to visit and leave you with no space to actually view the
web content that you came to see whereas bloatware is software that can be
legitimately useful but that was installed without your approval usually
by the manufacturer of your computer and that you probably wouldn't have
installed if given the choice so how do you get bloatware and crapware well as
mentioned before a lot of bloatware comes pre-installed on your PC and
actually the same goes even for mobile devices the Samsung Galaxy S4 was
particularly notorious for shipping with excessive bloatware with about 7 gigs of
the capacity of the 16 gig model taken up by pre-installed apps and software
that you couldn't remove without a pretty solid understanding of how
Android Works yikes not all blare is
pre-installed on Hardware though sometimes you'll find it hidden in the
recommended or Express installation options for free software
subscription-based antivirus Solutions are notorious for this hiding in
countless installers just waiting to eat up your CPU and RAM resources and in
this regard crapware is no different if I had a penny for every time I had to
uncheck install ask toolbar when trying
to install a new program on my PC I would already have my kids college
education paid for now in a world where
PC manufacturers often spend countless hours and funds designing and developing
their latest and greatest new laptop or whatever why on Earth would they include
pre-loaded programs that seem to do nothing but slow your PC down sometimes
the answer is pretty innocent and it's just a matter of they wanted to put on
this like feature that it turns out people didn't really care about that
much it wasn't very well-coded and it used up resources you just pull it off
other times the answer's a little more Sinister cash cheddar green backs Yen
Dong Dong anyway um back on topic
companies like oh let's just use Norton as an example will pay PC manufacturers
to preload their software onto their computers because once it's there many
people don't know how to get rid of it or even know that they should want to
well hold on lonus the apps pre-installed on my PC were free I mean
how is there a benefit to anyone to have it installed there here's how let's take
hypothetical dude Jeff who brings his new pc home and it's pleased to discover
it is protected by Norton Antivirus an
antivirus program that was included with his purchase how nice only a year from
now that software is going to be all like yo Jeff man I'm expired man your PC
is like unprotected unless you purchase another year of the service act now
before the hacker worm Trojan monster virus steals all your personal
information man because Norton was
pre-installed on that PC Jeff never realized that he could shop around and
find free Alternatives that work just as well or better so now they get to rake
in $54.99 a year for the lifetime of that computer pretty smart well okay
lonus now that I know about bloatware and crapware how do I get rid of it and
what can I do to make sure I don't get any more lucky for us life hacker has
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