They'll keep doing it though. Maybe not with this one creator, for the sake of proving that they get final say whenever they want, but all the other anti-vax content will stay up, because it's profitable.
purahna
joined 1 year ago
willing to bet if you ask it 100 times it'll be a white man for over 90 of them
Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don't fall for this bullshit, they're the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.
The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.
You're definitely valid for being concerned about privacy, but I think much more of privacy is how you configure your system and less how it ships, especially when it's all Linux under the hood anyways. Additionally, privacy features aren't much good when they're bundled, set to defaults, and never fully configured - it's both a great learning opportunity and provides even better security to set up things like browser extensions, a firewall, tor, etc. yourself so you can know their ins and outs than simply having them installed by default and never touching them.
Of course the privacy difference between Windows and Linux is so night and day that that leap on its own might be everything you're looking for and then some, but Linux is always what you make it, so you're not giving up much when picking one or the other! The only big things you're locking into is a community and a package manager/repository, and Mint is definitely top notch in those regards, so it'd be hard to do better.