Advertising a browser is now "shady"?

And yes, both things can be true which is why lying about one of them is wrong.

They added the installer to unrelated software, paid other companies to do the same, and defaulted the checkbox to on, so that unsuspecting users who didn't read all the tiny text with Adobe Reader or RealPlayer also installed Chrome.

Even if it was the most amazing browser ever written and came with a free puppy, it is shady to rely on tricking people to get your software installed, and pretending that this is just "advertising a browser" is incredibly disingenuous.

By replying to this comment you agree that I can install some of my software on whatever device you are currently using. <-- this is basically what they did.

who lied about what?