Webupon

   When sites first started launching toolbars I always downloaded them. It was cool and usually had a couple of convinient things such as views for triond or information about the site. However as toolbars progessed they started having spyware and pop-ups with the downloads. Now when you think you are being kind by downloading a toolbar you are really being screwed.

   I recently reformatted my computer and I noticed I had over 60 toolbars and about 40 of them had other add-ons associated with the download for a total of around 5 gigabytes. Which is just rediculous. Now I have 3 and I noticed my browsers are all much less lagged and yet I still support the sites I want simply by bookmarking. You do not need to waste your time and space and risk downloading a toolbar. Not to mention as toolbar use evolves the designers slack off and the toolbars are cheap knock offs hardly worth using at all.

   I have found toolbars now contain more broken links then ever before as well as poorly coded securities linking to the sites they are from. Yet they never cease to amaze me with new tricks from spyware in the tollbars themselves so you will download to pop-up code installing itself on your computer when you hit “ok”.

   However a few toolbars are still worth having such as Triond, Ebay, Paid searches and a few others but they are an elite group that rarely gets infiltrated by newcomers. Hopefully there is less toolbar spam as the years progress and only people who know what they are doing bother shoving them in our faces.