What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

  • Ghost@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Most of my days are spent writing malware and studying and testing it to see how it infects a system and how to learn how to stop it I also study malware I find online.

    When I say I use a VM almost all my time I don’t mean it as my actual “computer”

    My computer is a 24 core threadripper beast with 64gbs of ram. When I study malware I do it strictly through a VM and when I’m browsing the word or YouTube I use a VM.

    When I’m doing activities such as 3D printing and running my print farm I do not use a VM as it takes a lot of processing power and graphics power to run those programs.

    I just like using VMs to learn about open sourced software and how it works and I like breaking and fixing things.

    Cyber security is amazing but also sucks when you get a call at 3am lol

    If you have any questions send me a message :D

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the reply. I hadn’t really thought of using VMs to create an additional layer of separation between me and tracking and profiling companies, mainly because running a VM on my bottom-of-the-line machine was a painful experience when I tried many years ago. I think I’ll try that again once I’ve upgraded quite a bit.

      At the moment I’m stuck with a bunch of other responsibilities, but when I get around to it, I’ll drop you a message with any questions I have. Thanks again.