ITT: Software that went from good to shit and why
>pic related
Used to be a good virus remover because of it's good scanning, and now it looks like those "anti-virus scanner!" viruses. It also brings up a dialogue that tells you about a new update at random, even if you go into task manager and end MalwareBytes' process, it will open itself to tell you it has an update. I literally got an update notification from it as I typed this.
>doesn't know how to turn off notifications
>thinks a UI change makes software "shit"
Go away.
QuickPic.
It was bought by Cheetah Mobile and became chink spyware.
útorrent is probably the obvious one.
For me, I guess maybe imgur, even though it's a website. I initially liked it because it was clean and minimal, but now it insists on bombarding me with "viral" garbage recommendations everywhere I go.
utorrent
Use it on mobile and a random fucking cat paw pops up telling you to "Swipe for more!" Fucking scared the shit out of the first time.
what a retard you are, holy shit
t. malwarebytes shill
>not using clamav
Fucken dropped mate
ClamAV has worse detection rates than Windows Defender. Could just use nothing at all.
bump
AVG Anti-virus
Used to be the go to virus software imo desu senpai
Then they realised they could get a monopoly on the virus market and turned shrilly
Spotify also, until they added the freemium five plays per song and I never returned
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This and ES explorer.
Better question would be what software stayed good for its entire history because those are much rarer.
OSX
imagemagick
firefox
used to be advancing the web
now it's stuck between wasting money on women's outreach programs and desperately trying to be a carbon copy of chrome
mozilla doesn't even realize it's killing off the only user base it had - power users that didn't want google spyware garbage
Utorrent
From god tier to trash and im seeing same sign with malwarebytes
Its unresponsive and laggy interface
Paint.net
Retroarch
Many free emulators
Honeyview.
Used to be a top tier manga reader for fucking weebs, now it's owned by Bandisoft and constantly gets useless new features.
I haven't updated since before the buyout.
I wish I could just press a "do not show updates for this app" button. And no I am not going to install the hacked version. I can't be bothered decompiling it to make sure nothing was added.
7zip
Adobe Flash
There are some things you just don't joke about mang.
This is actually very easy to do and doesn't require any hacks. All you need to do is sign the official (pre-Cheetah Mobile) QuickPick APK using debug keys, and then install it. There are a number of signer apps that can do this for you. You can pull the official APK directly from Google Play to make sure nothing is tampered with.
Debug signing works with any app you want to freeze to a specific version. Google Play will never show updates for that app again.
Gnome desktop
Firefox
Rosegarden MIDI sequencer
with the first two they had good sensible UIs that got replaced with shit hipster ones
with the last one, it got rewritten or something and went from a useful tool to an unusable buggy mess
>Spotify also, until they added the freemium five plays per song and I never returned
What? I've used Spotify free for years and don't have any restrictions