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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

one added benefit of Linux: It doesn't - on a default installation - enable tons of services the user will probably never need. These services on Windows listen on the internet connection for incoming requests (e.g. remote desktop service), or are available locally for other exploits.

One of the reasons Windows "just works" (well...) is because literally EVERYTHING is preconfigured and activated on startup. That's also one of the reasons why the system is such a resource hogging piece of work...

It's a work of hours to manually go through system services and identify & disable everything you will not need.