XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.privacy   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9/3/2025 9:43 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 15:04:37 -0000 (UTC), Marion    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> While aphorisms have truth deeply embedded, more often than not they don't.   
   >> "There³ 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.   
   >   
   > Most distributions of the Linux OS   
   >   
   > yWriter novel-writing software   
      
   There is still some questionable activity on the more   
   popular ("pre-commercial") distros.   
      
   https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zeitgeist   
      
   You can Google on "site:distrowatch.com zeitgeist"   
   and find examples. This is just the first example found.   
      
   https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntuunity&pkgli   
   t=true&version=23.10   
      
      Paul   
      
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