> it doesn't count as malware unless it resists switching search providers back

Bullshit. If installing software changes random settings on my computer, it's malicious. If it was a default in the app itself, that's a different matter.

It tends to ask you in the installer, but if you forgot to uncheck the checkbox, that's what you get.

Remember the thing about being the product.

This actually might be a first for OS X freeware. Certainly I've never seen (or heard of) a 3rd party toolbar/whatever bundled into an OS X package before this.

Vuze for Mac does.

> But that person surely needs VLC instead, which too may come with 3rd-party crapware installer if you're not careful.

Bullshit. VLC has no crapware in the installer and installers doing that are illegal.

What word of "3rd-party crapware installer" needs translation?

It is possible to read it as 'VLC comes with crapware' rather than 'third-parties distribute VLC with their own crapware'.