No. It's the closed source crap the Google puts on top of it that you need to be concerned about. If you don't believe me, look at the source code.

I've used it before. The problem that I had with it was too many false positives, unless you configured it to not scan for them. I can't remember what they're called but not enabling kind of defeats the purpose. Now I'm talking about hundreds of them and you have to look up each one on the internet, inspect the source code, and then come to a conclusion whether the affected program is safe. But to be fair, all antivirus programs are like that but ClamAV gives you the ability to see them, probably because Linux has source code to read.

I was just talking to my sister about that. Having nothing to hide is irrelevant. I don't like people doing who knows what with my metadata and making money to boot. I told her that you have to fight tooth and nail to prevent it. I couldn't help her because she uses an iPhone that she was given. It's gotten to the point where I'm going to go olde schoole on everybody's ass.

While I don't have an answer for that myself, I would just like to say God bless Ukraine and it's people.

The first thing I do with new browser is to change the search engine from google, change the settings to my liking, add the bookmarks I want and then close it. Move the directory it crested to a different location then use a script to launch the browser by deleting the directory on the original filesystem if it exists, copy the new directory to the original directory, then launch the browser. That way it is always a clean browser.

Another strategy I use is I have browsers that allow caching, such as a profile for my bank, my bills, the government, certain businesses, research, open source, and such.

This also cuts down on bloat and gives you an environment that suits the usage of the web browser.

Good point! I don't use flakes or home manager. I picked NixOS for the same reason I'm too far into it. The docs are horrible, I feel recently someone is messing things up on purpose. They need to get their act together as to me, Nix represents a much bigger picture than just the petty needs of the few.

I was just thinking about that last night. I'm trying to pit a lan together for a business. The latest update has hosed the OS on a specific type of hardware. Other computers not affected. Have to troubleshoot today. Installed new OS and worked fine until the upgrade was applied. It's getting to the point where I want to quit but I'm too far into it.

That's worse than Microsoft. Have you read the EULA for Outlook?

Amen to that. I think someone got Zucked again.

So true. My brother says that American companies need to lower their prices. I go out of my way to buy American products as they are much better quality. Beware though, I recently bought a Verisoft mattress cover because it was advertised to be made in USA but it was actually made in China. Do your research and remember, in the long run, a higher quality product is cheaper.

What do you mean by that? Rob Braxman says that a local ai does not spy on you, and yet Ollama won't even run without an internet connection. Also, there is no truly open source model yet. I would like to help if I can. I suggest you write up a plan and point us to it.