Re: Hello world
By: Spacesst to Mro on Sat May 14 2016 11:57 am

sellout and packaged adware with utorrent in the past. if you do want to use utorrent use 1.8.5 2.x because later versions dont play well with other clients.

I just started using torch, don't know yet if it's good or a POS
I will update after a fair trial of it.

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Re: I use torch
By: Roadhog to Spacesst on Sat May 14 2016 08:27 pm

sellout and packaged adware with utorrent in the past. if you do want to use utorrent use 1.8.5 2.x because later versions dont play well with other clients.

I just started using torch, don't know yet if it's good or a POS
I will update after a fair trial of it.

i'm not sure if torrent sites would want you using it with them.
will you leave your browser open for days after downloading a torrent like you would with a client?

also i see this on the wikipedia page [because the torch website gives no info]

Criticism[edit]
Bundling of unwanted software[edit]
Torch Media receives payments from companies like Ask.com to bundle potentially unwanted programs with the browser. Users may be asked to install search toolbars or adware programs during installation. These bundled programs commonly do one or more of the following things:

Change the user's browser homepage to a page with ads
Change the user's default search engine
Prevent the user from changing their homepage and default search engine
Collect and upload data about the user's internet browsing behavior
Add toolbars to the user's browsers
Inject advertisements into websites that are visited by the user
While this practice is deemed controversial by some, users are given a chance to opt out of sponsored software and Torch claims to work fine without it.[17]

Torch makes contradictory claims about the software they bundle. Their online troubleshooter claims that "Torch does not install additional toolbars" while at the same time stating that "the Torch installer may include an optional Ask.com toolbar" on another page.[18]
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Re: I use torch
By: Mro to Roadhog on Sun May 15 2016 10:40 am

Bundling of unwanted software[edit]
Torch Media receives payments from companies like Ask.com to bundle potentially unwanted programs with the browser. Users may be asked to install search toolbars or adware programs during installation. These bundled programs commonly do one or more of the following things:

I noticed I had a bunch of sh*t that torch put on my desktop so I removed it, it even tried to give yahoo crap yuchhhh I hate yahoo.
tried it for 2 hours hated it, hated crapwqre it made me take, its gone from my system never to be dloaded ever again.

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it was one of the first times i ran into the experience that people turn thei M>eyes away from bad things and allow them to happen.

It's a damn shame, too. Money seems to drive everything. :P

Daryl

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Re: I use torch
By: Roadhog to Mro on Sun May 15 2016 12:02 pm

I noticed I had a bunch of sh*t that torch put on my desktop so I removed it, it even tried to give yahoo crap yuchhhh I hate yahoo.
tried it for 2 hours hated it, hated crapwqre it made me take, its gone
from my system never to be dloaded ever again.

make sure you load up your taskmgr and check for weird programs running.

also get voidtools everything and do a search for yahoo and other search strings. then delete them.
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