Whenever a new computer purchased with a Windows operating system preinstalled, or a mobile phone with Android or IOS, these programs come loaded with which users have no idea what they are and probably will never use.
No matter whether they are desktops or laptops, tablets or phones. In each of them the best known brands have a software package defaults to supposedly make life easier for the user, although the experience is contrary to the wishes.
The practice of installing these programs has a name own, or rather two names. It is known as crapware or bloatware. Bloat, in English, means swell or bulge. Crap, meanwhile translates as trash. Both terms, coupled with the end of the word software, giving rise to what is known as junk inflated programs or software.
Between paradoxes and cynicism
The phenomenon of inflation arises software Paradoxically, with the great advances in recent years in the world of computing. The rapid expansion in the capabilities of microprocessors, RAM and storage devices has made developers are not much concerned about the size or resources that consume their programs. The worst is that despite being larger and more voracious, the benefits to the end user is not very noticeable.
Although not crapware, an example of the bulge in the software we have in modern browsers especially popular. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
Autopresentados as “faster and more efficient”, Chrome and Mozilla consume many PC resources, especially RAM. If you use browsers in a while, you’ll remember how efficient these two programs were in their infancy. Today, the task manager indicates that Mozilla does than one gigabyte of RAM with a few tabs consumption in use, while Chrome is manifested completely separate processes but these add up to more or less the same as its competitor. In the latter the multipestañas software in one window function it is only displayed to the user. The PC, in turn, understood as if they were many open windows.
Aside from browsers, the experience offered by the bloatware is frustrating and cynical. On the one hand, a “new factory” computer is now loaded with test programs, such as antivirus, or to play video packet that almost never uses the end user.
They also include summaries of other programs designed to increase performance, running automatically when you start your computer and recharge the use of resources.
The situation has caused quite a few complaints in forums and official sites of the manufacturers, but not ends. Why?
In the case of Windows, Microsoft sells licenses to developers brands of computers to pre-install your operating system, which receives the crapware harmful additives. The thymus is of such a degree that even install a utility to recover the system in case of a serious failure or a deadly virus, but the recovery is not free software garbage but part of the process.
time, computers selling Microsoft itself in its Signature line is itself free of this type of useless programs, a fact that for a time advertised openly. According to the US company, the experience of Windows ‘clean’ allows a portable load at least 23 percent faster and recover from hibernation at a speed higher by 51 percent compared with those who are infested software . Trash
The site Softonic, famous for downloading programs in test mode, shows other interesting facts about this phenomenon: Version 5 of the popular suite CD burning, Nero, he weighed 12 megabytes. The next update was already 500 MB Nero 8 and occupied 1.2 gigabytes of disk space, with a number of sub useless.
Reason this portal software developers perhaps do this deliberately, because in addition to full suites sold “light” versions of their programs. Round business and money everywhere.
The article also warns Softonic-in a way that this writer atinada- you think that when you install a program the user is quick with several clicks on the buttons “Next” and so pour on your hard drive, irreversibly, a huge amount of code that could be avoided if you take a minute to consider what is to be installed on your PC.
It is stated that irreversibly because many of these programs with dozens of features penetrate operating systems in such a way that the uninstaller is not able to completely eliminate their mark. And until that companies benefit because they have created tools like Nero CleanTool cleaning or Norton RemovalTool. Yes, it is a series of paradoxes and cynicism.
Android does not escape
In the case of Android, the operating system of Google, the fact of having an open license for developers has provoked an avalanche of programs that are installed by default on mobile.
Almost without exception, Android always comes ‘cooked’ by suppliers according to your tastes. Only Google’s own Nexus devices are saved, but neither leave uninstalled many programs built from the factory.
Now, in addition to the standard bloatware, there are other problems in the market for mobile applications and are related to the use of data without user consent from developers who exploit to rip famous brands.
A Spanish blogger specializing in computer security issues in your digital diary shows how at least two “companies” set up a lucrative business through the use of user data.
Using famous brands of Spanish television or websites, these “apps” were installing a file which collected all the personal information that it be downloaded from the official store Google Play.
As a result, the user then received a barrage of advertising in these applications and others, that could become unbearable. At the same time, some unnamed company was holding up his address book.
The worst is that it is a practice that does not stop, because the creators of this software trash get money for each display advertising. Google data indicate that your store is removed daily between 800 and 2000 misleading applications. These are denounced by security companies and users, the latest victims of a publicity hell that often ends in a process of full format of the team.
The most obvious to get rid of bloatware solution is to install Windows from zero, in the case of computers. For mobile it is more complicated, but also involves a process known as “flash” of the terminal. It is worth noting that in both cases the teams lose the guarantee of their manufacturers.
If the user is not very expert in these matters, you can use free programs such as RevoUninstaller, PC Decrapifier (note the name that means removing trash ), or Ninite. They usually work so commendable.
However, perhaps the best option is to write a barrage of emails to the companies that make computers and wait to see if once and for all stop inflating devices with software, you do not think
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