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I have default windows defender, but didnt even know its antivirus lol. Is there any antivirus installed by default on any popular linux distro? What do you use?

I feel like antivirus can just annoy me when trying to crack something, but maybe defender protects me and im not aware.

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[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This means you need to use Firefox, Chrome is crippling adblockers.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This person doesn't seem to know what they're doing, given the question, so I went for two options. I haven't been using Chrome. Good call and thanks for correcting me. Google just gets more evil by the day, doesn't it? I'll edit my comment. Thanks again.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah there's a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world's browsers.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny how it started out as a search tool. It used to be handy, even better than Yahoo! LOL

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From the 1998 paper titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

[–] Sidyctism@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds pretty interesting! Might read a bit more next time when im bored in class

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's why literacy is so important now. Not just literacy, but high levels of literacy, the kind that require a high level of research ability. Otherwise, we have the internet of today, and it will not stop until people start putting value on literacy and critical thinking skills. Today's average user is just not competent enough to sift through all the trash and find the important stuff. That high school English class that forced you to write a research paper? Didn't prepare you enough. That high school English class needed to do better. Turn you into a research machine.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, that person also left out the part that Google pushed that particular chrome update out indefinitely.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Remember back in the day when their in-house motto or whatever was literally "do no evil"?