applied consistently; it is often used as a pejorative by end users (bloatware) to describe undesired user interface changes even if those changes had...

vendor). Unwanted factory-installed software (also known as crapware or bloatware) can include major security vulnerabilities, like Superfish, which installs...

are always used by the user Takes a significant amount of disk space (bloatware), as compared to buying only the needed packages Requires effort to use...

programs which are often bloatware or malware, and as a result, most anti-virus software detects the installer as a virus. Bloatware-free versions are generally...

Retrieved April 30, 2016. "New SourceForge owners kill contentious DevShare bloatware program". PCWorld. February 12, 2016. "SourceForge Acquisition and Future...

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distributed pre-installed on top-selling Android devices and may be considered bloatware by some people because users did not actively choose to download them...

February 10, 2022. Bode, Karl (May 4, 2018). "Verizon Brings Its Oath, Yahoo Bloatware to Samsung Phones". DSLReports. Archived from the original on May 25,...

Galaxy S5 Bloatware Removal Guide". Laptop Magazine. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2014. "Bloatware Creeps Into...

software titles from its catalog. This installer included trojans and bloatware, such as toolbars. CNET admitted in their download FAQ that "a small number...

2015. Mathews, Lee (22 August 2011). "Download.com wraps downloads in bloatware, lies about motivations". ExtremeTech. Retrieved 6 October 2015. "What...

no-frills, easy-to-configure ROM that won't bog down your phone with bloatware." In 2018, Williams Pelegrin of Android Authority said OmniROM is one...

In the following years, though, Samsung had incrementally removed the bloatware and extra features, until TouchWiz was no longer recognized as TouchWiz...

μTorrent. All versions are written in C++. Out of general discontent with bloatware, Serge Paquet suggested to Ludvig Strigeus that he should make a smaller...

needed] CyanogenMod's developers said that it did not contain spyware or bloatware. Like CyanogenMod, the LineageOS project is developed by many device-specific...

small quantities as they were intended as developer phones, the lack of bloatware/modifications to Android while providing similar performance to more expensive...

maintains a sizable lead over competitors, despite concerns over adware and bloatware. Runner-up Transmission was praised for being lightweight, while qBittorrent...

advice including selling Linux computers and reducing the promotional "bloatware" on PCs. These initiatives did manage to cut the negative blog posts from...

2015. Matthews, Lee (August 22, 2011). "Download.com wraps downloads in bloatware, lies about motivations". ExtremeTech. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original...

uninstall the company's anti-virus software, which he characterized as bloatware. He disavowed the company's continued use of his name in branding, a practice...

ability to fully back up, restore, or batch-edit applications, or to remove bloatware that comes pre-installed on some phones. Custom automated system-level...

June 2016, a Duo Labs report stated that Lenovo was still installing bloatware, some of which leads to security vulnerabilities as soon as the user turns...

During 2013, some computer security companies categorized NCH software as bloatware because it bundled the Google Toolbar. In July 2015, NCH Software announced...

telephone keypad. Sony has been criticized for loading its VAIO laptops with bloatware, or ineffective and unrequested software that supposedly allows the user...

final in its series with the former. However, the S5 was criticized for bloatware, its unresponsive fingerprint scanner, and its ostensibly non-"premium"...

life and camera, sub-flagship level performance, Verizon exclusivity and bloatware, and an unrefined hinge and display, while praise went to the compact...

freeware and removed many other Windows 98 components identified as "bloatware" or as being of questionable value. Although Revenge of Mozilla asked...

Google services intact. Android One has these features: Minimal amount of bloatware. Android One phones prioritize background activity for the most important...

onto Windows PCs to make up for the licensing costs of Windows. Such bloatware is often criticized in the tech media, even from reporters who are usually...

can easily be reshaped as needed. Ubuntu represents a break with the bloatware of proprietary operating systems and an opportunity to delight to those...