Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins

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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Slashdot != Normal Users

[BitZtream]

Normal users want shit to just work without being bothered with installing crap.

I realize slashdot doesn't understand this, but its true.

Apple does a lot of things not only without asking, but without even giving you an option if you wanted to ask ... and people freaking LOVE them.

This is one of those times when you're arguing technical reasons for not doing something and completely ignoring the practical reasons and target audience.

NORMAL USERS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE THINGS SLASHDOT USERS CARE ABOUT.

Once you guys actually get that into your heads you'll probably get a lot further along. Normal users don't give a fuck about your agenda, they care about theirs. Theirs doesn't revolve around tinkering constantly with their computer to make sure everything works in only the way they determine. They just want to browse the web and do shit and most are happy to have someone else automate the tedious retarded bullshit like installing browser plugins

Normal users don't care. They want it to work.

[aristotle-dude]

Normal users don't care. Normal users also don't seem to have any problems with Quicktime or iTunes on windows. Why is that? Because normal users have not screwed up their systems with registry hacks and other crapware that "leet" users do which is why their systems seem to still work fine even with Apple software running on it.

I used to be a windows user and I used to hack my resource files on windows to make it more like OS X but guess what? It ran like crap because of the size of the larger resources and the other hacks running in the background.