Ah yes, windows installers… you always have to dig through every sub menu to uncheck garbage…
my favorite is how most installers don’t properly clean up after themselves on uninstall and leave some files behind in certain directories. Or leave behind registry entries that sometimes break things later on reinstall or version changes.
I agree that hiding stuff in installers is a dark pattern.
I ran to an installer not to long ago that wanted to by default install google chrome AND set it as default! This hidden in a submenu meant for the uneducated user to skip by unknowingly, both checked on by default so you have to dig through opt-out. Which is terribly dirty, and also really chrome? Don’t you have enough market share you need to resort to such low advertising tactics? If i remembered the app I would name and shame.
This type of stuff shouldn’t be in installers…and if it is, it should at the very least be defaulted to off so you have to intentionally opt-in with user action.
This type of stuff irritates me, made a thread for it: