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Yeah I use RAR daily and I have no interest in using a tool made by companies who exist to collect data and use it to serve you ads. I’d rather pay $29 for a l

• Someone1234 5y ago
  I'm not sure what you're talking about. The major tool promoted in the article is 7Zip which is not made by either Google or Facebook, costs $0, and doesn't contain ads or collect data. The two tools which are made by Google or Facebook are command line utilities which also don't contain ads.
  • 300bps 5y ago
    7zip is just one of three applications mentioned in the article and the article says it’s much slower and seems to more recommend offerings from Facebook and Google. First off, 7-Zip achieves a better compression ratio, but it is much slower to compress than RAR. However, since 2013 Google's Brotli and since 2015 Facebook's Zstandard (Zstd) are two good options for file compression. I didn’t say either of them contained ads. I said that both companies offering them exist to collect data and serve ads. I stand by that I have no interest in using any tool that they provide. 7zip is a fine application but as others have covered here it is not a full replacement for RAR. So I’ll continue using RAR daily.
    • thiht 5y ago
      zstd and brotli are not products though, they’re just components that have been open sourced (BSD/LGPL2, and MIT respectively). The fact they’re from Facebook/Google is irrelevant here. You do not support or endorse Facebook/Google because you use zstd/brotli.
    • programmer_dude 5y ago
      Google/Facebook aren't getting paid for these products. You are not supporting them by just using their compression tools.