Oracle's Java

Java hides the option to suppress sponsor ads deep in their menu under the advanced section at the very bottom. It seems that they were trying to hide this feature so that users wouldn’t be able to find it easily and disable it.

Oracle's Java
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Gray et al.
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January 18, 2017

When setting up java, the preselected “recommended” option actually changed the user’s default search engine to yahoo, which the user might not want. It also changes your homepage to yahoo.com.

Oracle's Java
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Gray et al.
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February 11, 2017