JMJimmy Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 Chrome craptoolbar junkhome page hijackingads featured torrents you can't get rid ofHow many hoops do you expect people to jump through to opt out of before you get that this stuff is just going to drive people away?For one, you definitely need to remove the "ultra light" from your advertising. Right now utorrent is using as much RAM as Internet Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 You can turn off the ads, a couple of threads on that!You can turn off featured content, at LEAST one thread on that "home page hijacking"? Toolbar junk"? If you pay attention during install that won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac-the-Knife Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 A link for getting rid of all the adds.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=125180As for the rest, I don't have Chrome, I don't have toolbar junk and my home page hasn't been hijacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foooo Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 "home page hijacking"? Toolbar junk"? If you pay attention during install that won't happen.Yeah but the checkboxes are not part of the installer itself. 1) they are on the download page in a f*cking half invisible box that shows up AFTER you hover the download button.2) it wont show at all if the user has disabled javascriptIt is intentionally "designed" this way to trick users into installing that crap on their computers.Dicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 In case #2, if js is disabled, the installer will merely show the offer like before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foooo Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 In case #2, if js is disabled, the installer will merely show the offer like before.Oh, ok. I did not try that. But the installer should always show the checkboxes (they can be pre-checked) if it's going to install additional software. Installing them without any notice during the installation process is wrong. But I already explained that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 We moved it to the website like on Adobe, since it's easier to do there, and doesn't make people think it's our license agreement.Frankly, it's more convenient cause then I can run the installer again and have no toolbar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foooo Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 We moved it to the website like on Adobe, since it's easier to do thereMaybe. But theirs is always visible and above the download button. Yours is too easy to miss (on purpose). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doleo Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 I am really disappointed by the poor programing in the utorrent installer.Why have you created different installers?In the installer i downloaded there was no option to not install malware.Spending time on configuring different MSI/exe files in not the best way to treat neither users or your own time. You should rather focus on your product, as a consequence I will definitely not recommend utorrent to anyone. Telling users to reader better is new low level in reply from a administrator.On the positive side, you do actually reply to these post.However inconsistent and arrogant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 In the installer i downloaded there was no option to not install malware.There is, you probably missed it.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=699468#p699468 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovetour Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 In the installer i downloaded there was no option to not install malware.There is, you probably missed it.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=699468#p699468I too am not a fan of this sort of thing. I actually support in-application advertising more than I do the installation of toolbars, home page changes, etc. No program should even "offer" to do those things.I don't represent uTorrent/Bittorrent in any way -- but another option, that I use, that at least prevents installation of ANYTHING, no matter which installer you download (!!), is to use a portable installation.With uTorrent, this is as simple as copying the uTorrent installer to a directory of your choice (this will be your install directory). Rename it to uTorrent.exe if necessary. Copy your settings file to that directory, or if you want a fresh install, create a blank file with the name settings.dat. Create shortcuts to this uTorrent.exe if desired.Now, when you run that copy of uTorrent, it will automatically SKIP installation, including it's own installation, since it has a settings file in it's own directory. Any time you want to update your uTorrent version, just copy the latest version of uTorrent.exe into that directory and it will "be upgraded".To get rid of in-application ads and such follow the advice already given (it's in the advanced preferences).LT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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