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> Bring back the days of being able to trust your device and services you use Did that time ever really exist?

• Bancakes 6y ago
  I think loading alternate DOS-compatible OS's was about the last mark of that era.
  • bayindirh 6y ago
    PalmOS was pretty secure in that regard IIRC.
• Nextgrid 6y ago
  Before the whole "attention economy" bullshit happened you could reasonably trust software from a known, popular company not to be malicious (back then the creepy tracking behavior was considered "spyware" and would immediately get flagged by any anti-malware software, ruin the publisher's reputation and potentially put them in legal trouble). Nowadays, most software out there comes with some kind of spyware (Facebook SDK, extremely granular analytics sometimes going as far as screen recording, etc) and nobody seems to care.
  • JKCalhoun 6y ago
    So before the internet — before "snitching".
    • bigbubba 6y ago
      When do you think the internet was invented, in the 00s?
• diveanon 6y ago
  Yes, for decades in fact. What the web has become since the rise of weaponized ad-tech is a tragedy.