When I download some installers and run them I notice it offerring me to install other things like Opera. I don’t understand why they feel the need to do this. Why? Are they endorsed by the people who made them?
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Money. Using Opera as an example, Opera will pay the bundler for every install of their software. It’s entirely a revenue raiser for the main application owner and does not help the end user at all. I think it’s changed now, but they used to opt-out too so if you just click your way through everything, you’d end up with a heap of crapware installed.
Even now, they usually put the tick box next to the license and privacy policy because they know people will just click everything without reading it.
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