the.com/browser integration
the software equivalent of asking to borrow a stapler and moving into the office instead.
means when an app installs itself into your web browser as a toolbar, extension, or default-search hijack, usually without asking twice.
from emerged in the late 1990s browser wars, when toolbars from ask jeeves, google, and yahoo fought for real estate atop internet explorer, teaching an entire generation to distrust free downloads.
peak toolbar eraearly 2000s pcs often ran five toolbars at once
bundling tacticinstallers hid checkboxes to slip extras in quietly
modern formnow lives as browser extensions instead of toolbars
security angleantivirus firms once classified toolbars as malware
for instance
ask toolbar — bundled with java installers for over a decade
google toolbar — launched 2000, once required for pagerank display
grammarly extension — integrates directly into chrome text fields since 2015
metamask wallet — turns any browser into a crypto login portal