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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by automato on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:16PM (#28160284)
by that definition, this platform is way worse spyware than etcher. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by 34679 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:15PM (#28161582)
One is a website. The other is a open source tool for local read/write that's been wrapped to add data collection without explicit user consent.
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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by automato on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:38AM (#28168134)
so that means it's ok for the website to collect way more data than etcher?

and since it's open source, you can actually remove any home-calling and have a perfectly functional software, but you can't change anything on this website.

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