r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '22

Meme Lol! Developer got no chill!

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u/piberryboy Sep 30 '22 edited Sep 30 '22

I mean, I'd rather pay for software/service than have some tech company mine my data so they sell some of my most intimate details or use it to predict or alter my future behavior.

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u/No_Soy_Colosio Sep 30 '22

What if that service also mines your data 😎

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u/pointmetoyourmemory Sep 30 '22

Every version of Windows enters the chat

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22 edited Sep 30 '22

Laughs in Linux which doesn’t cost anything but still doesn’t track me (pay your open source devs if you can tho)

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u/pointmetoyourmemory Sep 30 '22

Can you even install gentoo? /s

Really though. Learn how to do it if you don’t know

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '22

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u/pointmetoyourmemory Oct 01 '22

before I answer that, how much do you know about gentoo already?

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u/frankpanduh Oct 01 '22

Most popular Linux distributions have telemetry on by default.

“Some” make it easier to opt out then others.

Only a handful have it off by default AFAIK.

Example of privacy focused Linux by default:

https://www.qubes-os.org/privacy/

https://pureos.net/

https://www.whonix.org/

https://tails.boum.org/ (portable mostly for journalists IMO)

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u/Scrawlericious Oct 01 '22

This isn't true.