Hello Tokar, hello everybody.
I just want to say something about toolbars and other bundled softwares : I hate those practices and it always get me angry when a soft comes with bundeled soft like CCleaner with the Yahoo Toolbar. When installing a new version of CCleaner I always pass through the steps without reading ( ) and I always get the Yahoo Tollbar installed, why ? Because the defaut choice is to INSTALL the toolbar, the checkbox is by default checked and someone like me that don't want to loose time reading stupids installator text got the software because of a stupid little checkbox not clearly visible and checked. And what's the result ? The toolbar is installed, I have to uninstall it manually and it ALWAYS leaves traces in the registry !
I took CCleaner as an example but I'm sure it is the same with ST and CT.
I know that most people are in the same situation than me, but just think a while, what did people asked ? nobody asked to get the toolbar installed with the main software ! And are the toolbars REALLY useful ? My answer (I said mine) is NO, a toolbar is not useful, the only thing it does is making the browser heavier than it is, slowing it down and taking space on the screen, you can perfectly find and search using the websites or the little searchbox at the top left-corner of your browser (in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer 7 etc...), most browser also include popups blocker etc... so finally the toolbar stay there, nobody use it but it is there... On my computer, I don't have any toolbar and I am perfectly able to find what I need on the web.
I wonder what installer does the default link point to... I would not be surprised if it is the one with the bundled softs, with the little checkbox that nobody gives much attention to and that is checked, between the ones concerning the readme file and the desktop shortcuts .
Despite they don't want it, most people will get CT and the other stuff installed, because of the automatism that humans develops.
Another point not clear is the society that develops ST, like it has been said on assiste or in this thread, just some pages ago. And can you give me a proof that CT does not collect users informations ? I'm sure google does so why not Crawler ? By the way, IBIS and Crawlers have a very charged past concerning spying users...
Have a nice day.