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Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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You arrogantly said why you don't use password managers and I pointed out how your premise is incorrect and there's data to prove it; like this report from two years ago that cracking an encrypted password vault is orders of magnitude harder than cracking a password you can actually remember, or a report from a year and a half ago that not using one makes you three times more likely to experience identity theft. I pointed this out sarcastically, because you gave your opinion arrogantly. Since then, and since you've reacted with such anger and vitriol, I've turned the sarcasm down. I'm sorry that I hurt you with that joking response at the start.
But I'm not going to stop fact checking you in this thread because I don't want someone else seeing this and thinking that our positions are equally based on fact. They're not. You have a feeling; I have facts.
If you want me to stop, then stop posting misinformation.