• viking@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    My mom knows nothing about adblock, and is still blocking ads. You better believe all of the kids having to fix their relative’s computers will set up some free antivirus and ad blocking right away.

    Can’t comment on the sample size though, Ghostery might indeed be somehow biased and measure devices where their software is installed vs. total number of internet users or something? But users of ghostery are more likely to be tech savvy, so there’s a higher chance of them having more devices that are equally sanitized.

    I’d have to dig through the study and see if the sampling mechanism is made public.

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      11 months ago

      will set up some free antivirus and ad blocking right away.

      Those mfs have got a way to go if they’re setting up free antiviruses. Free anti-virsus will hurt your system probably more on average than actual viruses

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          Just use Windows defender already. It’s been good enough for ages. All the others downplay this to justify their existence.

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            11 months ago

            Why are people recommending Microsoft spyware in a privacy thread??

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              11 months ago

              Here we are spaking about that this Spyware is pretty resistant against all kind of malware, not about that it’s needed to gut it from all kind of telemetries, bloatware and not needed services before the first use, that is another thing.