• dan@upvote.au
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    6 months ago

    Would you consider Candy Crush an ad? It was preinstalled. Was the pinball game that used to come with Windows an ad for Maxis Full Tilt Pinball? Was the U2 album that Apple gave away for free an ad for U2? (that was even worse since it was very difficult to remove the album from iTunes).

    To be clear, I don’t like that Microsoft bundled Candy Crush. I even saw it on my work PC running the enterprise version of Windows! I’m just not sure I’d consider it an ad.

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      6 months ago

      Its an ad because its a third party. Pinball is at worst bloat, but it at least doesn’t ask for money. If MS was really recommending apps then why not Chrome or LibreOffice? Its clear candy crush compensate somehow on top of not being a competitor. Thus its an ad.

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      6 months ago

      Oh yeah, you’re absolutely right! it was a pre-installed app. which in my opinion is worse since it reinstalled itself (same with apple and U2’s album).

      If you uninstall something from your computer, it should stay uninstalled.I understand why bundled apps exist, but they shouldn’t feel like malware that refuses to go.