Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Bundled crapware
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Bundled crapware, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Out-of-box PCs with bundled crapware are unusable for some people2022-12-11
- Browser gets hijacked with random popups and an imposed search engine2015-01-13
- Bundled vendor software is hard to remove and causes crashes2009-07-22
- Bundled apps run in background and launch on startup, slowing the computer for users who never use them2009-07-22