A few minutes ago, I'm just reading the news from the RSS feeder app called Feeder and then suddenly I got a notification from x from Linux handbook which I was seeing in the feeder app. How?
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Yes.
A rule of thumb: any and all proprietary applications spy on you, this goes doubly so for the big social corps. There is an epidemic of spyware and it's all being sold to you as a benefit.