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  • jnk@sh.itjust.workstolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux not in meme
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    1 month ago

    Toggling on data collection without informing the user would mean billions of dollars worth of fines in Europe, so I doubt that happens regularly.

    More like a few thousand euros symbolic fine and an angry letter saying “don’t be an ass again pls our infrastructure depends on you” after years of blatant abuses and anti-consumer practices, followed by an ambiguous law (with positive effects affecting only european users) they will definitely not manage to circumvent withing the next week and a half. Not this time 🤡.

    The problem here is the fact that most people just do not give a fuck about this; that’s why there’s no coverage in the (mainstream) media, why the only people who cares end up just leaving windows and why this kind of options are usually opt-out and they can actually afford to silently re-enable them cuz who’s gonna check anyways? Random people ranting on meme communities about my fancy malware?





  • jnk@sh.itjust.workstolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldsomeone tell them
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    2 months ago

    That’s the thing, most desktop distros come with a web browser preinstalled, but:

    • It’s usually firefox or librewolf, which are objectively superior to edge in any scenario.
    • You can uninstall it right away with either a three word command or open a program with a big red “uninstall” button, no console needed.
    • Nothing breaks, the system literally doesn’t give a fuck if you even have a web browser at all.
    • If you want another browser then go for it! You can even use edge if you’re a psychopath. Your system wont judge you, but i might sorry-
    • It will never reinstall crap you uninstalled and set it the default on a random mandatory system update.








  • Once a software vendor demonstrates theyre untrustworthy, why would I risk using their products?

    How are you using windows then? They’ve had innumerable security breaches, not to talk about how MS demonstrates again and again that the only thing they care about is money. Does “trustworthy” mean “american” or “only sells my data to the USA gov and other US companies” then sure, it is trustworthy as fuck.

    Of course you will invalidate that with some mental gymnastics, but this same thing happens even with freaking usb (charge only, mind me) cables from aliexpress, with people saying they have fucking chips to spy on you. Again, racism.

    And spare us from the sophist personal attack on people you disagree with

    Try to put it however you want, but hating anything that comes from one place just because of that, then adding excuses is fucking racist.

    except there’s no question of there being significant Russian efforts to meddle in the US and other countries.

    And here comes the grand patriotic justification for racism! If you really don’t have shit to say about the actual software, just block me or something and spare me from your presence :)