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Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If you don't have this kit you will be bombarded to Temu's ads

Better version: https://lemmy.world/post/21245770

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

DONT use the "I Don't Care About Cookies" plugin. It was sold to Avast. The same company that stole users information and sold it ON A PRIVACY PRODUCT illegally for years causing them to get sued for 16 million. (slap on the wrist tbh)

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/whats-new/acquisition/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of Avast, it keeps flagging things that straight up aren't viruses, what's a good alternative?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

iirc Windows Defender does a decent job. However, if you are a JavaScript developer, try to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don't care much about the performance hit.

I personally have stopped running antivirus on Windows a couple years ago. Since I run most, if not all, untrusted software in VMs, I didn't see the point of wasting performance. On the host, I only run Firefox and Steam/Epic games.

I then moved to Linux and I have 2 GPUs; one for the host and one for VMs with games. But that's probably a different story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

ry to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

Does windows defender go crazy constantly scanning the files or something? I have a TON of machines running automated tasks using node and any drop in CPU usage would be much appreciated.

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