The newly released Foxit v 4.0 setup process has grown more cumbersome, without a doubt. It automatically will check you into the Foxit license agreement, and users are also opted-in to the Foxit Search Bar which changes your default search provider to Ask and makes Ask.com your home page.
On their own, these would be annoying enough, but users are also opted-in to the Foxit add-on for Firefox, and into creating desktop, quick launch, and Start menu icons that link to eBay. Obviously, that's a business model plan for Foxit, but the connection between Foxit and eBay is even more tenuous than Foxit and Ask.com.
Worst of all, in our tests it commandeered the default PDF reader setting even though we unchecked that box.
Forcing users to opt-out instead of opt-in combined with a surprisingly large number of pre-selected options, and it's hard not to conclude that the cumbersome installation unfairly burdens the program's otherwise reasonable features.
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