Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by Lammy on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:42AM (#27072230)

I tried this once but was annoyed at it being an Electron app, and sure enough it has analytics that spy on your usage by default including "information about the type of SD cards and USB drives": https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/more/collected-data/#balena...

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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by ______- on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:38AM (#27076396)

Then flash it on an OS that's not connected to the Internet? That's what I do anyway. For some that's a pain, but over time I learned to have an OS that's airgapped for privacy reasons.

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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by Lammy on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:19PM (#27079025)

Obviously it’s not the end of the world for technical people who are in the habit of looking inside all new applications’ settings and reading their privacy policies, but it means I could never recommend this app to anyone in good conscience knowing they will probably skip all of that and get spied on.

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