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I was curious what the Linux people think about Microsoft and any bad practices that most people should know about already?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Microsoft is evil, but are they more or less evil than Google?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They took down the fucking don't be evil sign! Google used to be a good company but I don't trust their actions. I've only found out about the spyware level chrome browser, not to mention that Google has been coloring my searches on the internet.

But what do I expect from a ADVERTISING company first and for most?

Don't authenticate to a search engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

youtube needs you to sign in to watch videos now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This is unfortunate, I like my privacy, I've also been hearing about server side ads. On grayjay, I haven't needed to sign in.