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All analogies are flawed but this feels a bit more like the tamper proof labels on products, the antivirus company threw some chicken in a produce bag, and call
by NegativeLatency 2y ago
All analogies are flawed but this feels a bit more like the tamper proof labels on products, the antivirus company threw some chicken in a produce bag, and called it good.
At this point a lot of antivirus software is just useless or actively harmful.
- yborg 2y agoAvast actually had a trojan horse product whose main purpose was collecting browsing history for sale to data brokers ... that you paid a subscription fee for. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-order-will-ban-avast-selling-browsing-data-advertising-purposes-require-it-pay-165-million-over https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/...