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Conflict: bloatware, adware, annoyware, etc.. are sub-categories of malware.

Bloatware is not malware!

Not mensioned on EN wiki

  • Argument: it mensiones adware which is not meant to cause physicall harm to the system. -> Supports Bloatware is Malware.

Strongly enforced by gentoo

  • to the point of banning people for saying otherwise

Bloatware is malware

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Bloatware such as adware is wasting system resources to promote content

  • Is causing physicall harm by occuping storage, limiting system resources and energy for it's runtime even when author didn't meant it to be malicious -> should be considered as malicous.

Supported by Czech wiki

  • Supported by czech wiki mensioning USA - Californian law that reffers to malware as computer contaminant which is definition of bloatware.

Current conclusion: If the program is not intended to be malicious it's not considered as malware, which is wrong considering any software as malicious if it's causing physicall harm to the system excluding author's intent should be considered malicious for reasons provided.