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Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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It's capitalism. You get to choose who steals your personal data.
Unless you use a trusted firefox fork
I kinda feel like capitalism is treating me like a lemon thief these days.
You lemon stealing whore!
False choice. Self hosting is an option, and not even that difficult these days.
People are lazy.