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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

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No, use consent-o-matic, which is even configurable and thus better in every way.

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You fools. You absolute buffoons. Clearly you should be using the open source, free (beer) web browser I cooked up in my basement

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Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?

Its really best to keep browser extensions as few as possible for fingerprinting resistance

To OP/readers you’re OK with extensions this would be a better pick imo (read installation instructions)

https://github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories

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Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?

Not using the addon, but I simply didn’t know uBlock can do that.

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

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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.

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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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