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		akkartik on Dec 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome Is Bad Situation: there are 14 companies installing rootkits. 14?! Ridiculous. We need a single company that's allowed to install rootkits. Situation: there are 15 companies installing rootkits. How about we just stop digging when we find ourselves in a hole? (Ref https://xkcd.com/927)

awinter-py on Dec 12, 2020 [–]

yes I get it but none of the proprietary updaters are trying to be a standard or a 3rd-party tool

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