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[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Title is blantently misleading.

[–] git@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it's:

  • On my computer, and
  • You're trying to discover it, and
  • I didn't grant permission

It's an illegal search of my computer. The title is correct. That you don't feel as strongly about software liberty and allow definitions to erode over time is your problem.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't realize that misleading clickbait post titles was a key cornerstone of software liberty.

[–] git@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Enforcing definitions is part of software liberty. Look at free software vs open source as a very real, very widely impacting example. There’s nothing misleading about the title on a factual basis. If you can’t see that yet I hope one day you will and look back on this comment in a different light.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

You honestly think one day I'm going to wake up and think "LinkedIn's website is searching chrome for extensions" is too precise and factual, the right thing to do was to use a headline that would obviously imply to the average person (including average tech user and average free software advocate) that LinkedIn (the website? App? Windows 11 component? Who knows?) was scanning your whole hard drive!