September 11, 2015 | BY Pieter Arntz
All in all this free offer is not so bad considering what you get in return. But I would like to add a few warnings about this one. And they are straightforward about some of them on their site.
First of all, it’s a beta and as they state, bugs will be bugs. Another quote: “YellowSend will pop automatically with a solution and various offers of different products related to sending such as speed (of sending), backup, storage, protection, printing and so on.”
That sounds like it is ad-supported, which by itself does not make it a definite no-no, but we’re getting there.
Then, neither the files nor the traffic are encrypted. That very much limits the files I would dare to use their service for. Some other objections I have are their association with InstallCore, a known bundler of adware and PUPs. When installing YellowSend we noticed that it requires two steps of installing.
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