uTorrent Browser Toolbar Mystery Causes Confusion

uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. recently signed up with a new toolbar partner. Last week millions of users got the offer to install this new addon with the upgrade to uTorrent 2.2, but it appears that it wasn’t that optional for everyone. Several disappointed users report that the Conduit toolbar was installed without notice, or even when they explicitly opted out. The uTorrent team regrets the dissatisfaction and is trying to get to the root of the problem.

toolbars For a year a bundled browser toolbar has been one of the main sources of income for uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. The toolbar is offered to new users and is offered as an option with fresh installs.

With a few dozen million downloads a year, the added browser toolbar has provided BitTorrent Inc and the uTorrent development team with a healthy and much needed revenue stream. Initially, the Ask toolbar was promoted but recently a switch was made to the Conduit toolbar.

In addition to offering the toolbar to users who do a fresh install of the uTorrent client, the new Conduit toolbar was also promoted to users who upgraded to the latest uTorrent 2.2 release. However, this process didn’t go as smoothly as it should for everyone, and several TorrentFreak readers reported serious issues during the upgrade process.

Instead of getting a popup notification asking the user if they wanted to install the Conduit browser toolbar, it was instead installed on some users’ computers without any notification at all. Another group of users did get the popup, but when they chose not to install the toolbar, the software was installed on their computers nonetheless.

Over the last few days the uTorrent forums have been filling up with several of these confused users, and others wrote blog posts addressing this unexpected behavior and their frustration.

Despite several complaints the issues seem to be relatively isolated. We’ve tried to reproduce the “bug” on several systems but at our end everything went fine. Simon Morris, Vice President of product management at BitTorrent Inc. told TorrentFreak that they have no idea what went wrong either, but that they are aware of isolated issues.

“It has not escaped our notice and it is obviously NOT our intent,” Morris said.

Initially BitTorrent Inc. and uTorrent’s forum moderators denied that there was a problem at all. Instead, they were convinced that users must have selected the wrong checkboxes, which can be perceived as deceptive by some. However, this position became harder to hold as time went by and complaints kept coming in.

“We have seen some isolated suggestions that the toolbar installed even though the checkboxes were unselected. If this is indeed true then we would consider it a very serious bug. If anyone can help us reproduce this type of bug then we will investigate it and fix it immediately. In spite of extensive tests we have been unable to reproduce this particular problem,” he added.

uTorrent Browser Bar

Morris further said that because of this massive rollout to all upgrading users, the level of attention is probably more amplified than usual. Many long time users see the toolbar offer for the first time and might be caught by surprise, or confused by the checkboxes. Although this is partially true, it would be wrong to simply deny that something went wrong during the upgrade process for some people.

The uTorrent team has promised to get to the bottom of the issue, and fix any errors that they come across.

“Both our team and Conduit’s team have been investigating further whether there is any problem with the install, but we have been unable to find any evidence that the toolbar will ever install if you deselect all 3 checkboxes. Conduit has found and is fixing one minor uninstall issue,” Morris said.

“We regret any dissatisfaction, and we welcome inputs on anything that may be going wrong. One thing is very clear – the offer is designed to be purely optional, such that if you deselect the offer checkboxes it will not install,” he added.

All uTorrent users who had the Conduit toolbar installed ‘accidentally’ can easily remove it via the Windows control panel where the software is listed as ‘Conduit’ and ‘uTorrent toolbar.’ Did you have any issues upgrading to the latest version of uTorrent or did it go smoothly? Please let us know and drop a comment.

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Shiny Gardevoir

Didn’t have this problem when I installed. Wasn’t even aware the toolbar had changed to a different company.
politux

Its times like these I’m glad I’m not a windows user.
rTorrent

never had the problem with rTorrent that it installed a toolbar <3
hikaricore

@politux: +1
Unclipse

Went smoothly, wasn’t aware of the issue, I did unckeck the boxes when asked if I wanted to install it or not.
Dicaprio

Article fails to explain what use the toolbar is for users ! So why get it ?
anon

I just upgraded and i remember the boxes. Because it wasn’t ask.com toolbar i noticed the toolbar offer for once.

There were 3 check boxes to deselect. But, if i remember right, clicking one box, like a “Install, Yes/No” Box, would deselect all other boxes. If you did not realize this and clicked on the second box “Make conduit my homepage” or some such shit, then the first box reselected itself. Same with the third. A deselection of some boxes was not exclusive of the first and therefore the first reselected itself.

I remember this issue but navigated it successfully myself.

Yo
Huggybaby

I complained about the Ask toolbar a long time ago.

You can tell how ignorant, uh, “computer-savvy” someone is by how many toolbars they have running in Internet Explorer. Power users sure don’t need them. In fact, nobody needs them, but what the hell, it’s all about the money baby.
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Anonymous

Just uninstall the toolbar and quit complaining. :/
viktor

sadly, utorrent gets buggier and buggier with each new major release.
littleshooter

Just use LittleShoot — no add ons, cleaner interface, faster.
http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

@8 I’m not a fan of toolbars either, but there would be no uTorrent without it I’m afraid.

It’s optional, so people have a choice.
BG

2.0.4 / 1.7.7 FTW!
Rekrul

This reminds me of DivX Google Toolbar incident. Several versions back, DivX started including the Google Toolbar with the DivX “bundle”. Several users reported that it was installed without them ever being asked. In fact, it happened to me. Finally, one user figured it out and posted to the forum; The page of the installer asking if you wanted the toolbar didn’t appear for several seconds after the Next button was clicked. Most people assumed that the click hadn’t registered and clicked Next again. Since the option to install the toolbar was enabled by default, it went installed without users ever seeing the options. Even after this explanation was posted to their forum and verified by others, the DivX team refused to acknowledge it. It wasn’t until a couple months and several more complaints later that one of the team claimed that he had “just” discovered this problem. When I pointed out that it had been documented months before they tried to claim that this was a different problem despite being exactly what users had been complaining about.

I hate bundled toolbars, especially when the company tries to pretend that it’s being added for the user’s benefit. DivX insisted for months that they only included the Google Toolbar because they thought it was great and that everyone should have it. After much badgering (by me) they finally admitted that it was added for financial reason.

I hate bundled software in general. The fact that DivX refused to provide a codec-only download and instead insisted on including their player was one of the reasons I stopped installing the official DivX codec. They claimed that their users were too stupid to deal with just a codec, although they put it more delicately than that. When asked why they wouldn’t provide a codec-only link for experienced users who requested it, they tried to claim that if they did, the support requests from users using third-party player software would overwhelm them.
Scene-r

@2 – FTW
C

umm there are other alternatives.
Goodbye

Time to switch to deluge ( http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Screenshots )
Like utorrent without the commercial sucker spirit behind (and the ad-spy-toolbar either)
Drake

It’s optional but the boxes are selected by default. It should be opt in, not opt out.
nonW00t

I didn’t get the toolbar installed, but the dialog was somewhat confusing.

When my upgrade was done (not a fresh install), the dialog said something like “you now have 2.2 which has better this and that”, with the optional checkboxes below. I of course unchecked them to be sure, but the the “Install” button was still enabled besides the “no thanks” button. Well, I selected install thinking if I selected no thanks it would actually cancel the whole installation, since I did uncheck the boxes. lol Luckily the toolbar crap didn’t install afterall (and the homepage and search left alone), but there was a delay and I got a “utorrent already loaded and not responding, close it and try again” type of dialog. But everything was fine after that running the app normally.

Anyway, could have been smoother. ha
Farow

Just some stupid people failing to uncheck the boxes.
LupeFaco

umm i just unchecked the box and moved on with my life and installed it like everyone else
———-
Free Company tryin to make revenue???
KILL THEM!!!!
Will

@18 I agree 100%, too bad it is not the law! Hopefully 1 day it will be the law, at least in the US.

For privacy reasons if nothing else.
32424

wow people are so lazy , no wonder everyone is so FAT , ur too lazy to uncheck a box, wonder what else is in ur life like that

I GOTTA PICK THE LANGUAGE AT THE ATM
pure hell
RuanHoll

Several disappointed users report = 5 ppl
DeMerciless

The same problem happens with frostwire,,,I just uninstall the toolbnar
Anonymous

@12 and would that be so bad kill utorrent cause you cant get everyone using spyware toolbar ….
ya
right
cygwin some changes on parsing files of the makefiles and rtorrent
YOU wont find a tutorial cause i aint making one….suffer stupid non programmers
indy

This happened to me once with skype. There was no way to opt out of a toolbar install, so I dumped skype permanently from my life. No worries, there are ALWAYS alternatives. Nobody should be a slave to ANY platform, service or software, open source or closed.
WTF

Goddammit toolbar won’t go away!
Jerry

This just shows the ignorance of uTorrent users in general. It’s not difficult to navigate, it’s simply that people are stupid/lazy and always looking for a reason to bitch about something they’re getting for free. Especially Yanks…

;-)
nnsa

I’m still on a hacked 1.8.3 build. With it I can always enable DHT if I want, it’s defo saved the day a couple of times.
Harry Ball

LOL. uTorrent is officially crapware.
Truther

How to get to the root of the problem:
Stop including crapware with installers that isn’t the application.
Simon

Shame about all these people having issues… It’s wonder they can’t untick boxes.

And stop moaning about uTorrent having a toolbar, it makes them money, which means you get the application for free.

They aren’t forcing the toolbar on you. Just open your eyes and untick the boxes.

/comments
Harry Ball

@33 I don’t have these issues because I no longer use crapware.
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Conduit is frickin evil, SPYWARE
Aus

Don’t people know that utorrent doesn’t need to be installed at all. Just create an empty text file called settings.dat in the same folder as utorrent.exe and run the program…
Fugasmic

@12 Why not? Tens of thousands of software writers release some very good free software without toolbars.
snickers

Or you can just install Transmission and not worry about secret backdoors or spamware. Open source for a reason.
Anon

All toolbars are just a SCAM.
Anonymous

@6 toolbar allows you to have 2 search boxes in firefox besides the normal one on the browser window. @14 sometimes it takes a long time to review things, I have heard of several companies where you point out a problem and they don’t see it or recognize it for 1-2 months.

@18 create a program that has the boxes checked saying “would you like to help distribute cp to help others out in the world, or just simply add the routing to a program to help spread as many places will ban you for it and lots of people have been v’d for it. If everyone was spreading it, then it can not be removed. Another though is to upload rar wiki leaks files and then after everyone has downloaded package, distribute keys = its no longer il ligal in the us (its legal in most countries however) as everyone has it now

@28, why curse god? What has he done to you?
Shrooster

Did an upgrade had no problems, weird problem that is..
Doink

malware, spyware, forceware, welcome to windoze.

LOL
MeeK

I have a unhealthy obsession with toolbars
Dave

I have waited a few weeks since i saw the upgrade message, and finally today i installed it and I never install any toolbars.

And after it upgraded i had the 2 programs installed (which I uninstalled) and if they pop into my system again Ill not be using this program again.
PlayBoyMan

I installed uTorrent 2.2 a few weeks ago. I was able to opt out of installing that toolbar, and had no problems at all.
DJDANKVT

I went through the toolbar bullsh*t….installed on it’s own and had to use google to figure out what it was….totally BS, shame on you Utorrent
BottomFisher

I used to allow the toolbars to be installed with free software because it helped them get funds to survive. But when I had to spend hours removing the Ask toolbar twice, and all of its vast insertions all over the place to avoid removal, I stopped allowing toolbars. Toolbar allow a dangerous access to all of your windows system as I found out the hard way.
bytehead

I upgraded tonight. Turned it off (although at some point it has been installed, probably when I upgraded 2.0x…)

Went pretty smoothly.
Fake_Name_here

I had no issue. But I despise the 2.2 interface changes. I am back to using 2.04. I will go to another client before I use the new interface. I tried to make it look like the old interface, I got it close, not perfect…
Audrey

If anyone wants to start a torrent site I got 2 domains I want to sell:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2035974
dg100

I had no problems with the latest install.

@14, by Rekrul: That sounds very plausible – mystery quite possibly solved, I think.

@Deluge fans: Deluge looks like it might be alright on Linux but on Windows, I really can’t recommend it.

Deluge+GTK2 is over forty times larger than µT, over-technical & poorly-documented and rather badly-behaved.

What I’ve seen of it suggests it’s also very buggy, assuming it works at all – something I can’t actually confirm at the moment, since the daemon utterly refuses to work (I don’t think it’s a firewalling issue either, it just freezes – nothing else I’ve ever installed has ever been so resistant to troubleshooting).

@Transmission fans: Transmission doesn’t seem to exist on Windows.
utorrent 1.8.3 (16010)

For an excellent earlier version of utorrent without all these present worries, go to the following address for version 1.8.3 Build 16010 (a perfect early version of utorrent in my opinion).

Version 1.8.3 Build 16010 is super tiny, fast, and reliable. It’s size is 281 KB !!

http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/5968/

I don’t know why there is all this fuss over add-ons and additional features. To me, all of those things just bloat the software and seem superfluous. The beauty of utorrent is its simplicity and speed. If it starts to slow down like Vuze with all its abundance of “features”, then that would be a real shame.

If the developers want to make utorrent better, they need to work on making its usage more private and anonymous and also include a “bind to interface” feature like Vuze has for binding to a VPN so your transfers don’t leak if the VPN loses connection.
buzz

just say no
sheesh – its not that hard…
hmmm

The problem is not :
“shouldn’t µTorrent and behind them, Bittorrent make money with toolbars, it’s free software, quit complaining it’s free and it’s just a toolbar”,

but rather:
“why is µTorrent a commercial company ? Do they really need coders to developp new, mainly useless features all the time ? Do we need new versions of that software, when the early ones work better than the new ones ?”
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Anonymous

Wow, I think utorrent and TF just got trolled hard, or just dumbass people just don’t pay attention to what they are clicking on, and then when something goes wrong they just blame someone else instead of thinking they clicked the wrong thing

trollers will be trollers
eyencyst

new utorrent upgrade did the same to me…i tried to opt out but it updated anyway….total bullshit.defintely lost respect.
F=G

I hate this pre checked boxes when installing things.
It’s a way to fool people to install shit they don’t want or need.

Utorrent is getting dirty in my eyes using this crap. It’s a shame.

I think this is worse then spam.

If I want shit I check boxes myself.
DERP

The freetards are too funny, keep it up.
Drag0nflamez

I’m on Windows 7 x64 and on a µTorrent beta release and I don’t see any toolbar popping up in Firefox.
4letterman

Conduit tool looks very useful.Took up too much space in my very small capacity computer.
Caveman

I hate browser toolbars. Never use them. I like a clean browser with as little buttons and things on it as possible :)
kuru

I´m really scandalized, really.
That shitty Windows installed a launchbar and a traybar and whatnot without asking me, boohoohoo…
MAFIAA

Torrentleech -> download manager *problem solved*
Tom

I *never* install or use toolbars, but the last update of µTorrent just installed the Conduit toolbar anyway. There was NO prompt, since the update always went without any dialogs popping up. Afterwards I noticed the Conduit crap, but it is easily deinstalled in Windows system settings.
Anonymous

There is a solution: GNU/Linux or *BSD and a free client (deluge-gtk, rtorrent, etc)

:)
Paul

qBittorrent on Ubuntu 10.10, no toolbars :-)
Sketch

LMAO, in my experience, 99% of all computer errors are sitting on the chair.
dg100

@64 & 65, by Anon and Paul:

Just out of curiosity, chaps, who exactly do you imagine will even consider going to all the trouble of installing and learning an entirely different CLI-based OS (plus applications) in order to avoid the 1 in 50,000 chance of accidentally installing an easily-uninstalled browser toolbar?
dg100

… Thinking further, if they’re the kind of yoghurt-brain that actually has trouble installing µTorrent, of all things, what makes you think they’re even neurologically capable of installing a Linux distro? :D
9

qBittorrent is what I would use on windows..

I am on linux though, so I use KTorrent..
Peter Kleissner

Great they are serving malware!
Doink

@ Sketch

” LMAO, in my experience, 99% of all computer errors are sitting on the chair.”

you got that right!
6sixty6

there are some people that should put their computer in a box, take it back to the store and tell the clerk that they are too stupid to own one.
demfan

@ sketch: right you are!

This has nothing to do with Windows, Linux or Macintosh.

Fools will be fools regardless of the OS:)
ahem

See, this is what happens when companies get too popular. They sell out. All the best software starts off 100% free, then it always goes downhill.

““It has not escaped our notice and it is obviously NOT our intent,” Morris said.”

Yeah, its not your ‘intent’ anymore because everyone complained about your spyware.
storm

this was not user error as suggested, I had the same problem. I thought it was me only seeing this today did i realise that i had NOT messed up.

At first I thought maybe the utorrent link i clciked on had been hijacked through my browser. Simply as I dislike toobars and checked (as I always do) that I had deslected it.

I know what I did I am quite throrough. As I said I did initially blame myself..but after this i see i had no reason to.

Mistakes happen but i do resent them saying that these incidents were isolated and thus probably people not installing correctly.

I know people do fuck these things up, but comon! really. I have enough experience and savvy to know what i selected and i am sure most of the other people who had this did too. as I said mistakes happend, fine then get it sorted but dont blame the end user cause you cant find your own bug/OR youy were conned by your own business partners! lol rawr! :P
storm

@73 did you manage to get a refund when you took yours back then :P LOL im only joking..i couldn’t resist. It’s xmas after all :D
terrorist96

I’m still running utorrent 2.0.4 and if I do a “check for update” it keeps saying there is no upgrade. While I clearly see the 2.2 version on their site..
DeeCee

HTF does a toolbar “Enrich Your browsing Experience”, piss on my head and tell me it’s raining why don’t they.
Stinky

For everyone saying “just uncheck the boxes during the installation process,” that’s NOT the issue. The problem is a lot of people who opted to upgrade from a previous version of uTorrent weren’t given the option of not installing the toolbar — the damn thing just appeared.

The options do show up for people doing a fresh install. No problems there. And no problem with the BitTorrent folks wanting to make a few bucks off their hard work.

However, for those of us who upgraded and had to pull that Conduit junk out of our systems — big problem.

It may have been a mistake as the uTorrent crew kinda sorta maybe admits, but the whole thing reeks of dumping that Conduit garbage on people and not given them the chance to refuse it.
Nonya

@35 +10.. And roach like when trying to kill/find them all..
keylogthis

The image in the article is wrong. I successfully upgraded to uTorrent 2.2 without installing the toolbar and it is because you have to uncheck ALL of the check boxes including the “I agree to the terms and service checkbox”. Which actually said something like, “I agree to the terms of service and agree to install the ask toolbar”.

In most installers you are not able to click the next button if this checkbox is not checked but it allowed it in this install because of the added requirement of ask toolbar.

My conclusion. User error.
Jeff

Vuze does this as well.

Though I think some people might be confused by the default selections, and may have allowed the toolbar to install when they thought they were opting out.

I am no fan of unwanted bundles such as this, but in some cases they are a necessary evil. But when software does this without giving users a chance to opt out, it should rightfully be labelled as spyware.
PL Plucker

Even if you uncheck everything you still need to click on the “No Thanks”.
super freakin man

same bug effects frostwire.it installed a toolbar after i unchecked the box. yay crapware
aZimo

I upgraded and got the toolbar, #80 is correct this is what happened to me, uTorrent is going from bad to worse I think its time I found a replacement :(
Stinky

@82 — but some of us upgrading from a previous version didn’t even get a dialog. No boxes to uncheck or anything — just the typical notification that a new version of uTorrent was out, a question as to whether we wanted it or not, a quick install and a toolbar. The only way the toolbar could have been prevented (apparently in some instances) was to decline the invitation to upgrade.

My conclusion — programmer error.

By the way, the idea that a company wants to get paid for a piece of software widely used to steal things is the very definition of irony. Teaming with a sleazy bunch like Conduit makes the whole affair even more hysterical.
HOLY COW YOU PEOPLE ARE DUMB

CLICK NO THANKS

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT CHECK BOXES YOU CHECK AT THAT PAGE; IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO IF YOU CLICK ACCEPT OR NO THANKS.

THAT IS WHY UTORRENT CANNOT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM.

PEOPLE ARE CLICKING ACCEPT INSTeAD OF NO THANKS.
Quartz

I prefer to use a clean client

http://www.tixati.com/

No toolbar,no crapware and a developer who listens, what more could anyone ask for ?
siljaline

Run HJT or OTL and get rid of it that way, if no joy, post your log to a Forum that supports HJT or OTL and have them clean the mess for you.

Shame on BitTorrent for getting in bed with yet another toolbar purveyor without doing due diligence !!
Beano

I just unchecked ALL the boxes – no toolbar problems for me – lotta whinging here though – you should all try to rtfi next time…
meee

@ 8 I totally agree, i’ve had to remove 2-3 different toolbars more times for friends!!
Ninja

Once I was installing some software and it gave me the choice to install Google Chrome. I said I didn’t want and continued with the installation. And wtf Google Chrome was installed. No surprise here that sometimes the things fail even when they have the option (divx case is a very good example).

Result is: you drive ppl away from your product. I completely ignored Chrome till the day I found out it could be made portable, then I tried it and liked it. But they lost me for what, almost 2 years. Nice isn’t it?

On a side note, I’m moving to Linux for my internetz and p2p needs so it doesn’t really matter does it? Windows is a necessary evil to play games properly though…
amos

Nice torrents toolbar powered by Google :-)
ano nym ous

uT 2.2.x is such a trainwreck.
It’s just the most recent “climax” of its downfall ever since 1.6.x.
Good riddance.
Anonymous

I upgraded, and I received the toolbar notification. However even though I unchecked all the boxes… I still managed to get the toolbar installed anyway. I thought that was rather odd, but I hate any toolbars on my browser so I just installed it with little problem.
Oh well
??

Dec 20, 2010 at 06:16 by HOLY COW YOU PEOPLE ARE DUMB

CLICK NO THANKS

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT CHECK BOXES YOU CHECK AT THAT PAGE; IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO IF YOU CLICK ACCEPT OR NO THANKS.

THAT IS WHY UTORRENT CANNOT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM.

PEOPLE ARE CLICKING ACCEPT INSTeAD OF NO THANKS.

THAT is EXACTLY the problem. The checkboxes don’t matter as long as you click NO THANKS.
Anonymous

Opera web browser uses this same tactic. When they get caught doing something shady like this they claim it was a bug and tell people how to fix it. The next release will contain a different bug that does something shady and the process repeats continuously. utorrent is no longer trustworthy.
Anonymous Coward

@68: Truth.

Couldn’t reproduce this error but let’s say it does happen under certain circumstances. What’s so hard about uninstalling the toolbar?

And FYI anyone running Windows and is not a noob shouldn’t have experienced any malware in the last, I dunno, decade. I don’t have time to screw around with Linux tweaking my settings and hunting X version of Y drivers all day until it finally works.
Paul

@dg100

CLI based? I don’t think you know what you are on about do you? Come on, admit it :-)

I use the Terminal out of choice as it’s quicker, but there is absolutely no need to use it. Linux has come a long way, maybe you should take a look before posting comments like that.
Kent

I unchecked the box but got two addons, the bar and another “Conduit” one installed anyway.
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TheSteelGeneral

@12 do we really have options?
who’s to say they don’t pull some crap even if the toolballs appears to be uninstalling, but are leaving behind some spyware?
The only thing that really works is imaging your OS and Program Files partition, and wipe the infected drive.

@14, by Rekrul: Goes to show what kinda lame excuses these guys come up with.

Listen, I get that they wanna get paid, but the sneaky way in which they do it makes me distrust them fully, utterly and completely. I’m not upgrading anytime soon.

uTorrent is the single most bestest app in the world, better than notepad, even.
Because it has the smallest footprint of ALL my apps, even Notepad takes longer to start, for example.
And because it has so much real power! Thru this, I’ve been able not only to watch all present tv-shows, just minutes after they aired, I also watched very old and unpopular old shows like the Time Tunnel 60s and 2004 version, Little House on the prairie, Star Trek etc
Quasit

“Time to switch to deluge”

Right.
It doesn’t even have a RSS downloader built in. Relying on a third party plugin that may or may not work in the future is crap.
The deluge programmers are noobs anyway. They won’t bother fixing so you can select the language in the program/during setup. It’s always been like that. Just because I have the “Format” (time/date) set to Swedish in Win7 doesn’t mean I want all programs in Swedish. Instead of _fixing it_ they come with idiot solutions, a common theme of an open source programmer IMO.
Jon

To the people saying “durrrrrrrHURRRR JUST UNCHECK TEH BOXEZ”
try reading the article:

“Another group of users did get the popup, but when they chose not to install the toolbar, the software was installed on their computers nonetheless.”

Be less of an ass when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Roger30001

It happen to me after i said yes but its easy to remove so no big deal. Trying to get people to share a new feature that we shoulsd all use… if one hundred peeps communicates one does books one does movies one does games you hear me. We would have to not download or seed so much just share.
hoddi1

Ha Ha Sorry I Could Not help Myself

In Vista Go To “TOOLS”, “ADD-ONS” Click Disable On What’s Bothering You.
Good Luck…
dun dun dun

create archive copies of pristine copies of older versions, coz you just never know what will happen in the future. Where can I get the modded 1.8.3 version btw?
app

utorrent is tracker bit-torrent users

bit-torrent inc is in partnership with MPAA

take my advice remove utorrent

and go with alternative torrent client such as xunlei which also enables you to stream torrents

xunlei has 340 million users

do not trust utorrent the developer are azzzholes and utorrent is not open source code !
Zod

I just did this upgrade 10 minutes ago to 2.2 and I’m absolutely POSITIVE I unchecked all boxes and it still installed the utorrent toolbar and the conduit software. Conduit DOES NOT show up in the add/remove programs and that’s usually the first red flag for malware/spyware. Now I’m going through my browsers removing these addons and will likely have to do a spyware scan as I doubt that will truly remove Conduit. I’m more inclined to blame this on them than uTorrent as uT has traditionally been an upstanding app that doesn’t pull this type of bullshit.
Zod

@ 84
I’m inclined to think this was it. I’m getting really sick of all this bundled bullshit that tells you “We’re going to give you this amazing app that will do everything for you including your dishes!”
Me: No thank you.
“Are you sure you wouldn’t like this awesome software?”
Me: No, I don’t want your crapware.
“Maybe you should reconsider. This really is an amazing opportunity!”
Me: WTF?! Just give me the GD software that I wanted in the first place that’s probably only 10% of the file I DL’d in the first place!!
“Thank you. Please ignore the next 20 minutes of HDD activity as this is completely normal and we’re not installing all kinds of useless bullshit on your pc to make a buck. Honest. You can trust us. Would we lie to you? ……………….. You wouldn’t happen to have any credit cards lying around would you?”

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