• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Could it have been more of a slap on the wrist than $16 million? Bullshit. Give the FTC some teeth. Let them fine companies into non-existence.

    • Leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showOPM
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      4 months ago

      and sold it to over 100 third parties without the knowledge of customers, the complaint says.

      Fine them every penny of the sale price multiplied by a few. Until it costs companies more than they make off the deal to do this, they won’t stop.

  • otacon239@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    Per much any and all anti-virus/privacy software made by a for-profit company is bloatware at best and malicious at worst. Just use the built in Windows Defender if you’re still using Windows or nothing if you’re on Mac or Linux.