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Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-wear-more-hats dept.

nk497 writes "A Mozilla exec has attacked Apple, Microsoft and Google for installing plugins without users' permission. 'Why do Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others think that it is an OK practice to add plug-ins to Firefox when I'm installing their software packages?' Asa Dotzler asks. 'That is precisely how a Trojan horse operates... These additional pieces of software installed without my consent may not be malicious but the means by which they were installed was sneaky, underhanded, and wrong.' He called on them to 'stop being evil.'"

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  1. anti-trust! by alphatel · · Score: 2, Funny

    But MS, G and A all have our best interests at heart. No program should be able to circumvent this explicitly allowable behavior!

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    When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
  2. Misread title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I read the title I understood: "Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked by Evil Penguins ". I should not have tried to read it again, it completely destroyed the original effect.

  3. Microsoft, Apple and Google by bradgoodman · · Score: 4, Funny

    See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no Evil

  4. Re:Don't stop them from adding, auto remove... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One could write a plugin that does just that!

  5. Re:Oh okay, but what about Mint by slackbheep · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly you didn't see the genius of his plan, once he gets Gates pregnant: BAM.

  6. Re:Yes by David_W · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'd actually need to invent a new word to convey the stupidity of it.

    "Java-esque"?