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Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released by pjmlp on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:45AM (#13667105)
> Spyware. Security. ...

I hope you don't use web apps, ChromeOS or Android then.

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Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released by em3rgent0rdr on Friday February 17, 2017 @05:06AM (#13667195)
For web, I always have Privacy Badger + Ublock + ScriptSafe (which I selectively disable). For Android, Instead of StockRoms + GooglePlay I use Lineage + F-Droid (only open source apps). And on my ChromeOS labtop, I installed Parabola Linux (free-software-only version of Arch Linux).
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Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released by SippinLean on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:17AM (#13669313)
How is that philosophically different than using Windows with Spybot Anti-beacon (or similar telemetry-blocker)?

You're critical of Windows for collecting data, but use other software that collects similar data, saying "that's fine I have 3rd-party privacy tools". These same tools have existed for Win10 since week 1.

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Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released by 0x6c6f6c on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:25PM (#13670938)
> How is that philosophically different than using Windows

He has entirely FOSS stacks for his devices? Quite literally no proprietary code wherever possible?

They're not "3rd-party privacy tools" he's making a point of, outside of a browser which isn't what the complaint is about on Windows, since that is outside the bounds of OS-specific complaints, but he mentioned it nonetheless since you asked about it.

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Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released by pjmlp on Friday February 17, 2017 @06:57AM (#13667599)
Regarding web, that is only partial security, as you cannot avoid everything that gets stored on the application servers.
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