http://rammichael.com/introducing-uncheckysynopsis wrote:Unchehky’s primary feature is automatic unchecking of unrelated offers, such as potentially unwanted programs, offers to change your homepage or your search engine. With Unchecky, these offers become opt-in instead of opt-out, i.e. they will be installed only if you explicitly choose you want them (you usually don’t).
Another important feature of Unchecky is that it warns when you accept a potentially unwanted offer. Installers often provide them as a natural part of the installation, so they can easily be accepted by mistake. With Unchecky, it’s less likely to accidentally accept such offers.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS- ... ecky.shtml
A cool idea, although I do wonder -- if the program takes off -- adware developers won't start this cat-and-mouse functionality enable/disable thing. Maybe something that anti-virus programs could add as a feature?
Regardless, I'm glad someone is doing this and hope it inspires bundleware devs to do one or more of the following:
- Have adware unchecked by default but make a case for supporting the freeware. Including an optional donate button would be great.
- Give some options about what to install. I don't mind installing Chrome or adding an Amazon affiliate link to my bookmarks, but there's several programs I wouldn't touch because of all the garbage I know they leave behind.
- Realize if you already have said program installed on your computer (the Adobe Flash bundleware installer sucks at realizing I already have AV and nobody wants two programs on their system).
It's from the dev behind 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.
