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Hello world! It's me again with a question!

So, I remember back in the days of WinXP and Vista when we had the CCleaner or CCCleaner. I recently watched a YouTube video about some guy stating that it is so good and the best thing you can use today.

If I recall correctly, didn’t they get compromised like 7 times already and switched owners a couple of times?

Same guy talked about NordVPN being so cool and stuff but a friend of mine found some software of them on his server, I don’t remember what kind, probably some tracker or adware, and since the incident happened around the time everyone started to get sponsored by them, I don’t really trust VPNs.

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[–] Zozano 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are legit VPN companies. Mullvad would be my choice if I didn't already use Proton for their suite of software.

Nord is shit-tier. CCleaner is shit-tier. Raid shadow legends is shit tier.

Note which youtuber it is, and completely disregard anything they say.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way I see it is if a company has to spend a shit ton of money advertising, they're probably not all that good to begin with.

If a product is legitimately good people will be beating down their door.

[–] Zozano 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have never actually seen a Proton ad. I only looked into them after hearing about them often on privacy oriented subs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Literally Edward Snowden mentioning it is the first time I heard of it, and after that, it was in the news a few times when big leaks happened, and the people who used Proton Mail never seemed to be the ones who got caught. That's the only I've ever heard them being "advertised" - and that's a pretty fucking good ad campaign: be one that people can rely on when their lives are at stake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I've been using proton for 6 or 7 years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen a couple on the Linux Experiment's page

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hate to admit, but I played Raid shadow legends on day 1. it was shit-tier after 3 hours and thirsted for money.

Needless to say, a YouTuber I saw during a YouTube-Trip said that they declined the raid shadow legends deal, despite it being 5 figures. Didn’t say the specific amount though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's BleachBit. Free Software, GPL3. Cross-platform and trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you need an open-source alternative for Linux systems there is Stacer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His rationale is that on a stock install, it removes entries, and that it might break some things. But he doesn't show much more than stuff being removed. He doesn't reason that windows may or may not clean them up itself, or explain which programs are crashing. It's a 6 minute video you can probably Skip. There may be better videos with more evidence out there.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There may be better videos with more evidence out there.

Sure link them so we can see...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Proof is the burden of those who make the assertion. Is ccleaner useless? It has yet remained to be seen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty interesting video! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=21VMQyQzRJw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Good bot :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Their update server was hacked 3 times already, if you MUST use it then use the portable version and remove it afterwards.