I hate Real Player! I hate it because of the adware and spyware that gets installed with their free player. The BCC has a Spyware/Adware Free Real Player available for download from their site!
Apparently, “The BBC made a unique deal with Real Networks which disposes of their spyware tactics. Basically, if a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC website, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuicance-free version of the player. It’s because the BBC have such a stringent public service remit, that it was offensive to charge people a license fee for BBC content, then make them pay all over again for the facility to view/listen to it.”
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It still has spyware on there. Don’t trust the BBC as they are lying.
i like real player
Real player is scum. Keeps trying to load programs at startup and access my network, Why?
Same problem — Real Player keeps trying to “phone home” even after I delete that part of the program from the Startup Registry. It just keeps loading itself in at irregular intervals. I sure as hell don’t need a player to tell the company everything I listen to, or force itself on my system when I don’t need it.
hey i knew this years back but peeps still dont get told do they ,anything thats free and not source coded for all to develop is full of shite just remember nothing is free
change of names proposition: “shitlayer”
I love you
I wish if you load to me free real medya tankyou
Easy, be careful with the installation, and use a robust firewall to deny it access to the `net.
I went to download the real player at the BBC site but it’s not some unique player but rather the same one from real.com, and you don’t download it from the BBC but instead real.com. So whatever adware/spyware and other problems the player has it will still have. Whether or not the BBC had their own version of real player, it doesn’t anymore.
I too refuse to load RealPlayer on to any computer that I am responsible for (Approx. 70). I was just sent to a site to view a video that I need to see; and, of course, it is only available in RealPlayer. So I have begun a new practice. I have composed an Email that I will send to each company/website that I encounter that only offers media content in RealPlayer format explaining to them that due to RealPlayer’s questionable License Agreement, marketing practices, and an application that incorporates “Spyware,” I will not be returning to their website until all of their media content is available in a format viewable in either QuickTime or Windows Media Player as well. I suggest all of you start to do the same.
Paste a copy of that email if you’d be so kind. I could do with something effective to use. As I myself am not quite as well informed as some people here.
Recommend RealAlternative as albirt said. Here’s the Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Player_Alternative
You can also use it with AVISYNTH to convert your videos out of that RM format into something more standard. Sorry RealPlayer, but when you choked your player with adware/spyware/nagware you signed your own notice of dissolution.
Real Player contains spyware and adware. It is not reliable and is not trusted by many computer users, that is why most informed users uninstall it as soon as possible. There is absolutely no need for it and the BBC should dispense with it forthwith