NoNags is a software download site that goes to great lengths to provide spyware and adware-free downloads… for their paying members. NoNags There was another really awful crapware offer after this one. Maybe will have some competition for that award after all. It’s actually probably worse than – almost everything in their top downloads list is a scammy fake scareware application that screams about your PC being broken even though it’s a fresh install.Īnd then they are wrapping their awful crapware wrapper on top of it, which hijacks your browser, injects ads everywhere, and installs even more crapware. This site is an abomination and should be removed from the Internet. Tucows If we click that button, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. We hear they might challenge John Edward and Justin Bieber next year for the biggest douche in the universe award. They still remain the kings of bundled nonsense. We don’t really need to include this since we already covered what happens when you download from them, but hey, it was a fun trip through the mire of awfulness. The latest trend is pushing lookalike copies of Google Chrome with adware bundled directly into them.ĭ / CNET Downloads It’s not unlike Idiocracy. They hijack browsers, insert ads, and they even use hidden services with deep dark API functions. ![]() They change the text or, in some cases, they make it look exactly like a terms and conditions screen. Nobody reads the fine print, just like nobody reads the installers when they are clicking through.Īnd some of these installers are extremely tricky. We were unable to find a single freeware download site that isn’t listing bundleware awfulness, and while a few of them attempt to do the right thing and alert you when something is bundled, it’s just not good enough. RELATED: Here's What Happens When You Install the Top 10 Apps And here’s the result of our investigation to prove it. There's no shortage of frustrations when it comes to software, so why add to them by making it difficult to open files? Open Freely's got you covered and then some.When we wrote about what happens when you install the top ten apps from CNET Downloads, about half of the comments were from people saying, “Well you should download from a trusted source.” The only problem is that there isn’t a freeware download site that is free of crapware or adware. Since it uses downloadable codec packs like K-Lite, we'd imagine it's easy to upgrade and update, too. On editable documents, the program opened a toolbar with a suite of formatting and editing controls typical of a lightweight word processor. We could also edit files with the built-in Hex Editor copy, save, and print files open and make changes to Word documents and zoom in and out. PDFs appeared clearly XML files displayed coded text music files opened in an embedded player with a spectral display a saved YouTube video played normally you get the picture (we sure did, in any image format). ![]() ![]() We browsed to a folder we keep with various file types for just such an occasion, but we failed to seriously challenge the tool. ![]() The only active icon that appears when you first open Open Freely is the Open File icon. Open Freely's main interface has an attractive, muted gray color scheme with contrasting highlights and icons that turn from dull to colorful when active. Open Freely's installation includes the free K-Lite Codec Pack, which contains dozens of codecs for opening media files and other formats. It can display nearly any kind of media, edit documents and images, extract files, and perform other functions. Either way, the defining word here is "can't." Open Freely can shorten it to "can" and also shorten the time and effort it takes to open over 100 different file types, including common types, of course, but also a whole lot of uncommon ones, from AMR to ZIP. So you've come across a file that you need to open but can't? Maybe you just want to open it but can't.
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