{"id":3014,"date":"2010-08-22T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3014-oracle-still-foisting-google-toolbar-on-java-users.html"},"modified":"2010-08-22T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T06:25:10","slug":"oracle-still-foisting-google-toolbar-on-java-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3014-oracle-still-foisting-google-toolbar-on-java-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3005-apple-not-android-is-killing-client-side-java-so-why-is-oracle-suing-google.html\">suing Google<\/a> over its use of Java in Android; but the company is still happy to take the search giant\u2019s cash in exchange for foisting the Google Toolbar on users who carelessly click Next when updating their Java installation on Windows. If they do, the Toolbar is installed by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb14.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is poor practice for several reasons. It is annoying and disrespectful to the user, particularly when the same dialog has been passed many times before, bad for performance, bad for security.<\/p>\n<p>Sun at least had the excuse that it needed whatever income it could get.<\/p>\n<p>I know certain other companies do this as well with their free runtimes \u2013 Adobe is one \u2013 and I like it just as little. However, as far as I can recall Adobe only adds foistware on a new install, not with semi-automatic updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle may be suing Google over its use of Java in Android; but the company is still happy to take the search giant\u2019s cash in exchange for foisting the Google Toolbar on users who carelessly click Next when updating their Java installation on Windows. If they do, the Toolbar is installed by default. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3014-oracle-still-foisting-google-toolbar-on-java-users.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,49,63,74,85],"tags":[422,512,686,809,878],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-java","category-oracle","category-search","category-sun","tag-google","tag-java","tag-oracle","tag-search","tag-sun-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}