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This is retarded. It gives you the option to install it in the installer. This only fooled those retards that keep clicking next without reading anything.

Did you read the article? A user complaint stated he chose to opt out of bundled software and still ended up with the miner on his computer. You could also be referring to an earlier version, as the artice implies it's only present in 3.4.2 build 28913.