Hi digmor crusher,
Everybody that has not slept under a stone has woken up to these disturbing new facts and trends for software downloads in general and free av solution software is no exemption there. The endless drive for extra cheap money seems to have overcome the evental hold-back while fear for a serious backlash, when end-users come to realize what is happening to them now, but it looks like marketing forces and shareholders outweigh the more moderate decision makers and are fully blind to these facts or very, very arrogant.
And the trend is booming as we see crapware everywhere now, even such that only leaves the browser when a complete uninstall and reinstall routine is performed.
Well the more apt user will do a custom install without additional crap- and bloatware, use unticky or find other ways to block the crap selling bundlers the earlier these trends will cease. The only way to choose now is by blocking, adblocking, scriptblocking, and uninstaling to learn the unethical pushers of crapware a well-deserved lesson.
As everybody seems involved now at the expense of the end-user, all need to learn that lesson of "grasp all loose all".
polonus