said by Zyniker :

Some means of "opting out"? Try unchecking perhaps?
I think putting the option clearly on your screen and forcing you to click through the install is a pretty good 'opt out'... Anyway, if you don't have the time to read what you are accepting...then you have no right to complain about what happens to your computer. People who just click through installs are the same people that wind up with adware/spyware/viruses because they just clicked "Next".

said by rcdailey :

but some would probably just click without thinking. That's a habit many people have.

said by Zyniker :

Anyway, if you don't have the time to read what you are accepting...then you have no right to complain about what happens to your computer. People who just click through installs are the same people that wind up with adware/spyware/viruses because they just clicked "Next".

said by impala :

EXACTLY! These are the people whose computers I support. This is why it must be opt in not opt out.

said by Mele20 :

You and most everyone else in this thread are getting upset and wasting time on a very minor thing that you can easily fix by paying attention and unchecking the boxes.

There is however a huge, very nasty, extremely worrisome plan on the part of most major ISPs in the USA (and all three major ones in England already) to screw you up one side and down the other and inside and out. Where are all the protests about Phorm? How many of you in this thread even know what that is...even vaguely know... much less have studied this major threat to the internet and users privacy in depth? Your energies should be directed to something truly important that if not stopped dead in its tracks soon will dramatically change the internet as we know it forever. We in the USA have no laws to protect our citizens from Phorm being used by the ISPs. Even in England where there are privacy laws it is a current major uphill battle.

The above may seem OT on the surface but it isn't because I am trying to make an important point here. Save your energy and protests for something that really matters and needs your help, your attention, your outrage. Don't sweat the small stuff.

said by C DM :

That's not the point. The point is that something like this doesn't belong in an application that exists to update existing installed applications.