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Originally posted by screen317
Since that is the case though, why do people still come to our forums and request assistance with it? I suppose this is my ultimate question
Because, as you said, there are unfortunatly still be people who don't read stuff when they install programs.
Such people come to our forums too, and all we can teach them (as that is our duty/responsebility at that point) is to use the included uninstaller just like you logically would do with any other software, and not to trust upon 3rd party apps or hear-say for stuff like this. And also tell them to read things before they install stuff.
And that's what we expect and hope other 'helpers' on other forums will say and do too.
Unfortunatly, there are still a lot of 'helpers' on other forums which don't know what they're talking about and simply base their stuff on other hear-say and false assumptions and telling people to do the wrong things. And then those unfortunate people sometimes come here with their problems asking for help, or worse, starting insulting us.
Believe me, 'helpers' from other forums asking for a clarification here like you did is a very extremely rare thing.
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Originally posted by screen317
and hope:
Would it be at all possible for that piece of information (that the sponsor can be uninstalled) to be displayed somewhere more clearly and more obviously, for the less clever among us on the Internet?
Has been discussed also though. In any case, it has always been mentionned on that very same page in the install wizard:
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from the install wizard
The sponsor can be removed at any time by launching the uninstaller of Messenger Plus! Live.
There is not much more Patchou can do though. Because people who don't read anything, will not read a big red flashing banner either so to speak.
Anyways, as mentionned earlier by SonicSam, the C2Media* sponsor is slowly being phased out in favor of another sponsor, Ask.com, which only changes your homepage and/or main search engine and is even easier to uninstall. So problems with the C2Media sponsor should occur less and less frequently anyways.
* "Lop" doesn't exit anymore since a very very very long time.
Anyways, if it all was so dishonest, then Plus! wouldn't be the software it is today; still being used, after 8 years, by millions of people around the world and still growing in numbers. Also, if Patchou was the greedy man that some people like to call him, then he wouldn't program the installer like he programmed it, and wouldn't give hundreds of prizes away every year or so.
Dishonest software has a big tendency to die out rather quickly....
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