Fruit Basket is a potentially unwanted program offered to people downloading freeware whose setup program has been modified to include it. Be aware that by saying potentially unwanted, we mean that there’s always a way to stop it from being installed. All we need to stop it is to be careful when installing software coming from the internet.
Fruit Basket‘s mission is simple: to show as much ads as possible when browsing the internet… quite the annoying task. Fruit Basket inserts in real time ads in every website you visit, specially those of e-commerce like Amazon. These ads can be seen as pop-ups, banners, green or blue underlined links within the text of the website you’re visiting, and they are easy to identify thanks to the tags: Ads by Fruit Basket or Fruit Basket Ads.
Besides ruining your browsing experience, Fruit Basket also takes the right to spy everything you do online, saving useful data like your web searches’ keywords and visited websites. Fruit Basket goes as far as analyzing your computer too, according to them for statistics purposes, or so they say in their conditions of use. Truth is they use all this data to build a profile about you they can easily sell.
We can find some sort of official website for Fruit Basket where we can find a download button… funny enough it doesn’t even work. This page was only created to make public their conditions of use so they can be protected in face of the law. Remember that you have accepted all of this conditions by installing the software whether you wanted it or not.
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