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Pulover / PuloversMacroCreator

Automation Utility - Recorder & Script Generator
http://www.macrocreator.com
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Installer includes adware #265

Open blahpers opened 1 year ago

blahpers commented 1 year ago

Including adware in your installer that installs without consent is a violation of GitHub's Acceptable Use Agreement. Remove it immediately.

wedoprods commented 10 months ago

I've never experienced this issue whenever I click "Decline" it normally respects my choice and doesn't install it. I see its interesting that some people have this issue and some doesn't.

EmuAl commented 9 months ago

yes i've just had this webcompanion program installed on my pc now i can't get it off, not good and severly not happy, there was no decline option. sort it out

wedoprods commented 8 months ago

I have never seen it happen where there was never a decline option.

TeaBarry commented 5 months ago

There was no decline option. Bad faith behaviour.

Pulover commented 5 months ago

It doesn't show again if you had already installed/uninstalled the offer.

Em seg., 10 de jun. de 2024, 08:47, TeaBarry @.***> escreveu:

There was no decline option. Bad faith behaviour.

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ToneLeMoan commented 5 months ago

Declined adware (already regretting even downloading software with this option). After install and run program hung, needing to be force closed but using 10% of CPU. Dodgy as ****.

mark-wiemer commented 4 months ago

Hey I'm just curious, where is the adware? I just installed this and didn't notice anything weird. What's it called and where does it install?

mark-wiemer commented 4 months ago

The adware is "Web Companion" and it can be found and uninstalled through the standard Windows menu. Ref https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey/comments/yy5ovn/warning_pullovers_macro_recorder_has_malware.

And here's the GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

mark-wiemer commented 4 months ago

FYI, I'm working on fixing this in https://github.com/mark-wiemer/adware-free-macro-creator. No promises!

mark-wiemer commented 1 month ago

Fixed: https://github.com/mark-wiemer/adware-free-macro-creator/releases/tag/v5.4.2