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    more spyware!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-computer.html

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    Wouldn't expect less from the totalitarian Leftys, who want to implement Communism.

    Spying on the Populos for "Wrongthink" is needed for that.

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      #3
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      windows only

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        Originally posted by Stefan Payne View Post
        Wouldn't expect less from the totalitarian Leftys, who want to implement Communism.

        Spying on the Populos for "Wrongthink" is needed for that.
        The exact same argument could also be applied to the other side of the same coin.
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          The discovery was made by Kelly Shortridge, a cybersecurity expert at New York based startup SecurityScorecard.

          Ms Shortridge noticed that the tool was scanning files in a documents folder on her Windows PC and was concerned that it may be collecting data.

          She shared her findings on Twitter, where she said: 'I was wondering why my Canarytoken (a file folder) was triggering and discovered the culprit was Chrome.

          'Turns out Google Chrome quietly began performing AV scans on Windows devices last fall.'
          Other than failing to notify Chrome users that this AV SW was made an integral part of Chrome, how is this different in operation from pretty much any other AV SW?

          I've reduced my Mozilla use to zero and my Google use to Gmail, but how is something an entire industry does sinister when Google does it?
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            #6
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            Originally posted by petehall347 View Post
            windows only
            But not windows 10. This is greatest spyware on the world ever.
            Laptops and computers repair.

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              never used, liked, or trusted Chrome.... I have a hard time supporting a company that has made its billions off spam & spying.
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                #8
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                Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                never used, liked, or trusted Chrome....
                You can say that again!

                Firefox is the only way to go these days. I don't care if it's slower or if some bugs pop up once in a while (that long slow load a while back, which I think I traced to Add-On updates being turned On) - it still a better choice and at the very least more transparent than Chrome. Not to mention the amount of customization available for FF.

                Chrome is like a damn virus - once you install it onto your PC, there is no removing it completely afterwards. I have one or two PCs on which I tried Chrome before, and CCleaner still picks up junk to remove from those, despite Chrome being uninstalled long time go now.
                Last edited by momaka; 04-08-2018, 12:50 AM.

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                  #9
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                  Originally posted by momaka View Post
                  Firefox is the only way to go these days. I don't care if it's slower or if some bugs pop up once in a while (that long slow load a while back, which I think I traced to Add-On updates being turned On) - it still a better choice and at the very least more transparent than Chrome. Not to mention the amount of customization available for FF.
                  Not any more! Now Firefox looks just like Chrome too, and the extensions are all useless.
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                    ^ Yeah, I heard newer versions of FF to be like that. I'm still running pre- FF-57 versions. Heck, I even found a few tweaks to get my FF 24 going for a bit longer (set TLS max version to 3 if you get pages complaining about SSL/TLS security incompatibility or refusing to load).

                    And this post was brought to you by Opera 12.

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                      #11
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                      Firefox ESR is way to go - compatible with legacy addons and updated for security.

                      https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.7.3esr/

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                        i use opera, but i have read about a "clean" firebox build called waterfox.

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                          #13
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                          ^exactly. See below.

                          Originally posted by momaka View Post
                          You can say that again!

                          Firefox is the only way to go these days. I don't care if it's slower or if some bugs pop up once in a while (that long slow load a while back, which I think I traced to Add-On updates being turned On) - it still a better choice and at the very least more transparent than Chrome. Not to mention the amount of customization available for FF.

                          Chrome is like a damn virus - once you install it onto your PC, there is no removing it completely afterwards. I have one or two PCs on which I tried Chrome before, and CCleaner still picks up junk to remove from those, despite Chrome being uninstalled long time go now.
                          I use Waterfox, which is Firefox that's been denutted, been using it for years. Telemetry has been removed as well as other annoying things. They're basically turning 56 into a 'LTS' it seems, since 57 sucked so bad. It supports all the addons that FF does.
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                            #14
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                            Originally posted by Snayperskaya View Post
                            Firefox ESR is way to go - compatible with legacy addons and updated for security.

                            https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.7.3esr/
                            I heard they won't support it for that long, maybe a year?

                            Originally posted by stj View Post
                            i use opera, but i have read about a "clean" firebox build called waterfox.
                            Which version? The latest Opera is literally rebranded Chromium. I used to use v12 but there's too much incompatibility with sites now.
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                              I personally hate Chrome and Opera, and love Firefox.

                              Seriously now though, I can't believe how Firefox (which is been said to eat loads and loads of RAM, and that is still true to an extent) runs fast for me but Chrome and Opera are slower than a sloth. Oh wait, Opera is nowadays just rebranded Chrome.

                              Firefox was and will always be my choice, despite their RAM usage issues.
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                                #16
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                                Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
                                Which version? The latest Opera is literally rebranded Chromium. I used to use v12 but there's too much incompatibility with sites now.
                                12.16 generally, and the latest beta chromium based one for jootube.

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                                  #17
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                                  Originally posted by Agent24 View Post
                                  The exact same argument could also be applied to the other side of the same coin.
                                  There is no other side of the coin...

                                  It all is some kind of socialism/communism.

                                  The hard right would be Anarchist, maybe Anarcho Capitalists.
                                  And the smallest gouvernment possible.

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                                    #18
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                                    Originally posted by Snayperskaya View Post
                                    Firefox ESR is way to go - compatible with legacy addons and updated for security.

                                    https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.7.3esr/
                                    ..slow as hell. I really can't see any reason not using Firefox quantum

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                                      #19
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                                      Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                                      I use Waterfox, which is Firefox that's been denutted, been using it for years. Telemetry has been removed as well as other annoying things. They're basically turning 56 into a 'LTS' it seems, since 57 sucked so bad. It supports all the addons that FF does.
                                      Sounds good.

                                      I'll have to check how their portable version fares, though. While I say I use FF, I actually use FF Portable on most of my PCs. Reason being is backwards compatibility with both hardware and software (but really mostly hardware, as older versions of FF use less RAM - a necessity for some of my old computer fleet).

                                      Actually, I have a somewhat amusing story regarding that above. The other day, a neighbor friend's kid was doing homework and couldn't get a certain website to run on his PC to generate a graphic he wanted to use in a project. The website needed Java NPAPI plugin, which of course wasn't supported by any of the browsers on their OS (Windows 10 with latest Chrome and updated Edge, as any person would have it these days). So his mother asked me if I could help him. I suggested installing Firefox, but the latest version didn't work, as FF57 and newer don't really support plugins and addon like the old versions. Then I tried FF 52 ESR, but that still didn't work due to being 64-bit - at least according to Java error message (really Java?). Then I started looking for an older 32-bit version of FF, but Google search seemed to really have a mind of its own and not want me to find it. After looking for 10 minutes, I gave up on that, went home, grabbed a flash drive with FF 24 Portable 32-bit, and had the website running for the kid in less than 5 minutes.

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