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Bite my shiny metal Ask: Java for OS X crapware storm brewing

JLV

well, my Brother laserprinter's wifi setup is through... drumroll, a Java applet (good printer otherwise).

once installed, it seems as if Java 7 on OSX has no system-wide uninstaller (though there is a Java applet-disabling setting).

next time, I'll VM a Java for the duration instead but I didn't know you couldn't uninstall Java.

and, for the record, before that printer, I had pretty much happily avoided any Java, applet, JRE or JDK on my Mac. the lack of an uninstall mechanism is hardly going to make me revise my opinion that Java is best avoided entirely if one can get away with it.

as far as ask.com goes, I really wonder what a gazillion $ company like Oracle is doing with this on a Java install. not, quite, as dumb as Lenovo, but how much $ are they getting for how much bad press? they should not renew whatever arrangement they have and come clean on when their ask.com shenanigans will go away.

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