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mschuster91 on Feb 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” ver...

> Maybe he is an asshole, but at least Larry Ellison didn't build a company to spy on half the planet like Page & Brin.

The toolbars and other crap which the JRE installer / autoupdater tries to sneak on to unwitting users' systems ARE spyware.

yellowapple on Feb 12, 2017 [–]

On one hand, it was Sun that introduced that idea.

On the other hand, Oracle seems to have embraced it.

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