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dnu | 13 years ago

Well, I see that they offer to "Install the Ask toolbar" by default. I don't remember Sun doing this.

http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/ask_toolbar.xml

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This I am genuinely annoyed with. I am going to start a petition to Oracle for these points, the Java community is extremely large and valuable and it's a disgrace to treat the platform this way.

frendiversity|13 years ago

I am doing some research, apparently this is only for the online JRE install, and it's been there since 2011.

Sun JRE install once peddled OpenOffice and Google Toolbar, but at least OO is better than Ask. Ugh.

They need to get rid of this, it's an embarrassment.

tsotha|13 years ago

One of the reasons Sun was gobbled up by Oracle is they could never figure out how to monetize their "extremely large and valuable" Java community. I don't like the toolbar spam any more than you, but Oracle doesn't have an obligation to provide a money-losing product.