devs do not always understand their users
Some developers of applications do not always understand their costumers/users, making their software behave like they own the place, or come with useless stuff.
A few examples:
Let's start with the newsletter.
You give your e-mail and get "weekly updates and special offers" [yeah right]. Signing up for a news letter is probably pretty much the same as going to a supermarket, and asking if they can send you commercial folders every week. Normally you put that kind of things in your paper bin, so why would you sign up for something like that? Strange that so many companies have something like this on their website...
...and not to mention that when you signed up, there often misses a "unsubscribe" button.
The toolbar
I installed a program a little while ago, and clicked the next button a bit too fast. Before I knew it my homepage was set to ask.com, and I had an ask.com toolbar installed. Now if there is something wasting screen area, and will probably never ever be of use, it must be a toolbar. For some reason many of the larger websites do not understand this, and offer their own toolbar for download.
Services, and other ways for filling your pc with
As usual, there came some programs with my new computer. Of course you install those when you set up your new pc. Now one of the programs had its own updater. No big deal: a lot of programs have those. This one, however, thought it needed its own service to operate. And whaddyaknow: it suddenly appeared in the startup list as well. If that wasn't enough: it had a tray icon.
I don't think this kind of programs need elaboration about why I hate them. Seriously: why do developeras think that users would like it running on startup, having a managing service, and being accessible from the taskbar?
Seriously: _it_is_an_updater_
The problem with these kind of selfish programs is that they appear everywhere. One creates a service, the other one comes with a toolbar or a tray icon, and often these things dont really have any use at all.
Seriously developers of this kind of software:
Get to know your users, and exclude these things if they aren't needed.
Unless I am surrounded by idiots that actually like these kind of things, of course...
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