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Are you one of the malicious actors? Thats some shit I'd expect to hear from the people doing this, trying to justify the attack by blaming the users for "capitalism".
I am quite confused by your assumptions. I am just making a joke about people trying to avoid surveillance capitalism tools on one side and gleefully installing aur packages from random people on the other side, potentially making their surveillance exposure worse. I'm part of them some time because it's too hard to verify everything everytime.
I tend to be a little antsy around anti-capitalists. Too many bad run-ins with Tankies.
i can empathize with those infected but it's important to note that the source of this issue is still installing random stuff from random people. the aur is not the same as arch repos, and users wanting to opt in need to take more precautions than usual
That's probably simply a more skeptical take of my own newbie perspective: the automated update systems on Linux are feeling increasingly scary since their maintainers can get hacked... I'm on Mint and I wish that the Update Manager would show changelogs per update, at least (even if those, too, can be fabricated)...