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Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD

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Re: Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD

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I'm not in the loop here. What's the "opt-out spyware" in linux distros the author mentions?

From the article, it sounds like it's that upstream systemd uses Google Public DNS as a default (if you don't configure a server or get one in your DHCP lease) and Firefox uses Cloudflare's DNS-over-HTTPS, which would allow those companies to see all your DNS queries.

Re: Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD

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I'm not in the loop here. What's the "opt-out spyware" in linux distros the author mentions?

Ubuntu at one point packaged in Amazon search by default.

To expand, I think the big issue was any time you searched your launch menu for your own machine's applications and files, the query was also sent to Amazon.
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