Why do some companies secretly install Pro Tools plugins on my system? – Page 2 – Effects Forum

Usually the installers I get, give me the option to select/deselect the formats which should be installed. They often also install standalones which I never need or want. Especially for the likes of Waves/Arturia/NI with proprietary downloader/authorizer apps, its worth to send them a feature request to have a default setting for silent installs, which exclude certain plugins. If they where smart, they would simply don‘t install them if the folder they should place them in, simply didn‘t exist. Instead, they create it. Maybe you could prevent it by adjusting permissions?