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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.

for instance

ask toolbarbundled with java installers for over a decade

google toolbarlaunched 2000, once required for pagerank display

grammarly extensionintegrates directly into chrome text fields since 2015

metamask walletturns any browser into a crypto login portal

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