Toolbars which are foisted on your computer as bundled software, usually affect the performance your PC. These toolbars, add-ons, and plug-ins which land silently on our PCs while installing the third ...

Life without Google: The importance of toolbars and browser add-ons As I go out and try different search engines, one thing is increasingly clear: Toolbars and browser add-ons are crucial. In fact, ...

You would think that in 2014, we’d have put all the web shenanigans of the 1990s and early aughts behind us, but you’d be wrong—at least for Windows users ...

Remember the Ask search engine? Oracle sure does—and by extension, so do Java users. Oracle has taken the practice of bundling useless add-ons and toolbars with legitimate software to new heights ...

Whenever I am visiting a non-geek, a normal, non-tech savvy person, I am always amazed by the amount of useless toolbars I find in his/her computer. It’s like they always want to increase their ...

A Google policy released last week aims to get toolbar makers like AVG, and companies that make add-ons, which use its software to serve ads to go through an approval process and provide users with a ...

The Internet runs on ads, but when you see them in your browser, your first instinct should be to run the other way—fast. The lion’s share of the Internet is wallpapered with tacky ads that invite you ...