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by ragequitta 2360 days ago
Wouldn't you be able to say the same about literally any OS that doesn't have a completely walled garden? I'm positive I can find software on linux that bundles the askjeeves software as well. And probably MacOS. You blame the software developer for that and never use their product, you don't blame the OS.
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Aardwolf 2360 days ago
Never saw that in a package for Ubuntu or Archlinux, not even AUR packages.

Maybe it's just not the target audience of such toolbars, but if there were I'd also expect package maintainers and user comments would deal with the issue.

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npo9 2360 days ago
A real package manager, a standard consumer os feature, would remove this dark pattern.
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