RealPlayer

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with RealPlayer, 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 6 complaints

Ad panes must be manually disabled and it asks for home address on install2025-11-12
Clickable labels and image-made buttons that open things are hard to recognise as controls2023-05-13
Free download link is hidden or obscured, making it nearly impossible to find2021-12-16
Slow, bloated redesign that tried to handle all media formats, painful to use2015-01-28
Had to go through countless settings after each update to turn off privacy-violating options2015-01-27
Opting out of extra bundled software and data sharing was impossible or very hard to figure out2010-03-15