>> I'm still trying to figure out what happened to VLC.  I have had very
>> reasonable versions running for ~years on a few boxes, including WinXP.
>> Recently tried to get one for my wife's laptop, and they "Recommended"
>> installation of Yahoo! toolbar.
>
> That's one of my biggest pet peeves.  In my old job, I would help sites
> set up something that required Java, but explicitly needed an otherwise
> barebones browser (ie, no addons).  Sun used to automatically install the
> Google toolbar, so I'd have to install Java and then uninstall the
> toolbar.
>
> They changed that behaviour, but I hate when installers install crap I
> don't want and didn't ask for.

Usually with these installers, there's a checkbox you can uncheck to 
tell it not to install the other crap you don't want. Usually. If you 
remember to turn it off. (And don't do a silent install or something.)

Unfortunately, this kind of nonsense seems to be a growing trend.

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