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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by ryandrake on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:36AM (#10697423)
That "ratcheting effect" is by design.

Similarly, anti-virus software has a "ratcheting effect" in that once you install them, you don't get to see the kind of high-quality viruses and trojans that might convince your computer to encrypt all your files or give up your bank passwords.

Installing an ad blocker has become another one of those "hygiene" steps that you do whenever you set up a new PC: Install Anti-virus, install OS-provided updates, install ad-blocker.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:36PM (#10697926)
>install OS-provided updates

Windows is working pretty hard to reverse this. At the very least you now have to scan through the updates to uncheck the telemetric ones.

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