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| On the other hand, OpenCandy does not demonstrate the negative characteristics commonly associated with adware: | On the other hand, OpenCandy does not demonstrate the negative characteristics commonly associated with adware: | ||
| * Advertisement is only shown as a one step of software installation. Once software (WinSCP) is installed, you do not receive any more advertisements. | * Advertisement is only shown as a one step of software installation. Once software (WinSCP) is installed, you do not receive any more advertisements. | ||
| - | * No unwanted software is installed. User has to explicitly choose to install promoted software to actually receive it. I.e. the default action is "do not install": | + | * No unwanted software is installed. User has to explicitly choose to install promoted software to actually receive it. |
| * No private information are collected. Installation program collects only information necessary to choose relevant advertisement, such as geo-location, operating system and language. For this purpose OpenCandy sends these information to ''opencandy.winscp.net''. It also downloads advertisement image from ''media.opencandy.com'' (though it does not send any information there). | * No private information are collected. Installation program collects only information necessary to choose relevant advertisement, such as geo-location, operating system and language. For this purpose OpenCandy sends these information to ''opencandy.winscp.net''. It also downloads advertisement image from ''media.opencandy.com'' (though it does not send any information there). | ||