Dear Oracle. I hope that Ask.com is paying you millions of dollars to flog their stupid browser bar and search service, because that's about how much customer goodwill you sacrifice every time I do a Java update and have to carefully uncheck the boxes to opt out of this crap.
Want to know why people don't update Java more frequently? For me, it's this.
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Not only did I refrain from updating Java frequently, but I also refrained from updating OpenOffice frequently, because it was also provided by Oracle. So I waited two years to update OpenOffice…and then discovered that Oracle no longer managed the product.
http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-ask-whose-fault-is-it-when-i-fail-to.html
And thanks to +John E. Bredehoft pointing it out, here's a petition to Oracle to remove this: https://www.change.org/petitions/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-ask-toolbar-with-the-java-installer .
(Flogging unrelated software during an install is bad. Making it opt-out, so that you have to pay attention and uncheck the box, is just darned wrong.)
There is a two line registry change, or two line script, which turns off these requests
#Truth