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> How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed? Slightly tangentia
by mehrdadn 7y ago
> How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed?
Slightly tangential but does anyone know if this is what Chrome does? It has a software reporter tool. Also Windows seems to do this too :/ though I'm not 100% sure.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoNot happy about other programs deciding to become spyware, either. "But they also!" is not a valid defense.
- mehrdadn 7y agoYeah I didn't mean it as a defense either. More like we should've been freaking out quite a while ago.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoI've been freaking out for two decades now. First the response was "yeah, that's tin-foil-hat stuff", sometime around FB it changed to "yeah, that's old hat, so what?"
- Jonnax 7y agoIntel's customer improvement program thing does that when you accept.