Ego-Ware Fucks

The BBQ Pit
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I wanted to start this thread a couple weeks ago but ran out of steam at the last minute.

Not today.

These fuckwads can kiss my white fucking ass and the couple of curly hairs sticking out of it.

I’ve fucking had it!!

What the fuck gives you the right to take over my computer!!

I bought your software fair and square. I didn’t ask you to fucking come in here and re-associate my files. I didn’t ask you to come in and install software from other fuckwad, worth for nothing, never could make a sale unless we fool them, software/service vendors.

I didn’t ask you to put short-cuts and start-up screens all over my fucking computer. I didn’t ask you to decide what I should and shoudn’t have on MY FUCKING computer.

All I fucking asked for, and paid for, was one piece of your software. I didn’t give you ball-suckers a green light to come in and fuck my computer sideways with you worthless add-ons.

Take a flying fucking leap you insecure, inconsiderate, ego driven, albino, never gotten off unless into a sock, losers!

Try getting a fucking date instead of thinking of new ways to screw Joe consumer.

Next time I see you on the street, I’ll say “Hey there”. When you say “Hey” back, I’ll assume your actually saying, “kick me in the nuts, punch me in the face, and while your at it, cram a stick up my crack”. I’ll kindly oblige and say, “Well, you responded to me, didn’t ya?”

God you people suck.

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Out of curiosity, what software did this? I’m going to guess some kind of media player like RealPlayer. I hate how those fucking things try to grab all the file associations.

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uh…try decaf
or just click on the “No” option

What? No “No” button included? Automatic installs? Well then, punch, kick and ram all the sticks you wnat, 'cuz that shit is about as annoying as spawned windows!

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Hmmm. You’ve been there too.

Indeed, the straw that broke the camels back was RealJukeBox from Real -as real as reverand Popoff around a bunch of seniors with money- Player.

I got a neat little MP3 portable player over the weekend. Love the player, hate the fucking software.

The fucking thing wants to access the internet constantly and ‘inform’ me of things I could care less about. Fuckers. It wanted to re-attritube my files but I said no.

The problem is, how many FUCKING times do I need to say NO? They’re not happy with the first FIVE TIMES.

Everytime I load something on my computer, I spend about half the time answering no to all their friendly ‘suggestions’. Jackasses.

How about asking me if I’d LIKE the added software, instead of assuming? Pricks.

I thought I was over this. Apparently not.

Last week I lost it when trying to remove WESTWOOD’s MONOPOLY from my computer.

The only thing was, the bastards didn’t think to include an uninstall program with the disk.

You know what WESTWOOD? Your right. That’s the best MOTHERFUCKING program I’ve ever used. Why would I ever want to remove it! I WANT IT FOREVER!!!

Here, let me bend over and cram my ass into the monitor for you too!!

By the way, I hate Mondays too.

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RealPlayer used to be pretty good. But all that file association crap sucks. The visualizations were interesting, but not good enough to make up for the lousy product.

I’ve been using Microsoft’s Media Player 7–it’s great (regardless of what you think of the company)! It asks you about what files you want associated with the program, and it’s incredibly easy to change the associations later on. It also synchronizes with Media Player for the Pocket PC (I’ve really enjoyed that part).

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RealPlayer is by far the most guilty of this. I, too, remember the “good ol’ days” when you’d install it and it would play RealAudio files and that’s it, without another word. Now it launches a massive campaign to seize control of every type of audio file on your system. If you say no, it continually hounds you with questions like, “RealPlayer is not the default player for one or more media types, would you like to correct this?”. It automatically loads itself into your system tray, so you have yet another shiny icon there forcing you to hunt through the prefs. to try and disable it. It harasses you to update it constantly, until you disable that, too. My version didn’t give me an option not to install RealJuke Box, and now after uninstalling it, I had to manually re-associate audio CD’s to play in my E: drive. Amen, Chris.

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I’ve been there too. I foolisly made the mistake of installing Real JukeBlachs one day. You might as well not even bother telling it not to associate itself with every file type on the machine. I checked “No” for everything, and the fucking thing went ahead and associated itself with every file type it could anyway. Even changed all the damned icons. It took me about 3 hours to undo the mess it did in 2 minutes - not to mention the time it took to uninstall it. Bastards.

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Now I’m really pissed.

I just came from General Questions and ran accross a response to another question that states that RealPlayer is also spyware.

True?

Fuckers anyway you look at it.

Also, I’m surprised that none of the programming teemings around here have spoken up on this practice. Why do it? What’s wrong with choice.

And another thing, while I’m ranting, to all those that think Netscape is such a wonderfull program- Netscape sucks even worse than MS’s Internet Explorer.

I liked it years ago when the big boys were out of the picture. But after installing it a year or so ago, the fuckwads that now run Netscape decided to re-associate a number of my IE files too.

Took me forever to get it off my system.

I understand there’s a longstanding war between Netscape and IE, but don’t fucking put ME in the middle of it! Did it occur to either of you corporate fucks that I might want both programs on my system?

It’s all I could do to search every nook and cranny to rid my comp of everything Netscape.

And AOL… O.K… Enough for now.

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And every time you open a RealPlayer movie, it re-activates that damn icon. I hate that thing! If I want to be that close to my media player, I’ll put a shortcut on the desktop or in that little resizable bit of toolbar to the right of the Start button.

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RealPlayer itself, as far as I know, isn’t spyware, but RealJukebox and RealDownload both send personal information and your surfing habits back to RealNetwork. There used to be a nice streaming video browser plug in called VivoActive. You’d go to the website, click yes on a microsoft certificate and after a less than 1 MB download it’d be installed. No file re-association, no nagging. Unfortunately, it didn’t catch on and VivoActive was bought out by RealNetworks. Now when you go to http://www.vivo.com you’re subjected to a page with dozens of RealPlayer and RealJukebox ads and a small length of text at the bottom of the screen:

Big fuckin’ surprise.