XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com   
      
   On 03/09/2025 01:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2025/9/2 9:33:2, wasbit wrote:   
   >> On 01/09/2025 16:04, Marion wrote:   
   >>> While aphorisms have truth deeply embedded, more often than not they don't.   
   >>>    "There¢s no such thing as a free lunch."   
   >>>    "You get what you pay for."   
   >>>    "Cheap is expensive."   
   >>>    "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."   
   >>>    "When something is free, ask what it's costing you in privacy."   
   >>>    "Convenience of freeware is just surveillance in disguise."   
   >>>    "Privacy is dead, and free social media holds the smoking gun."   
   >>>   
   >>> What examples of freeware do you feel meet or do not meet these aphorisms?   
   >>> I'll start.   
   >>>   
   >>>    Irfanview meet my freeware & privacy expectations.   
   >>>    Vpngate.net does not.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Why oh why is alt.privacy included ?????   
   >>   
   > (I see it isn't by the time the thread reached here; as it's not a   
   > 'group I take, I haven't put it back.)   
      
   It was in the original post but I removed it in my reply.   
      
      
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   wasbit   
      
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