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Newsflash: everything that isn't free and entirely open source is generally spyware these days.
It's amazing how we pilloried RealPlayer and burned its parent company to the fucking ground over two decades ago for far less egregious transgressions than what we now let Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc get away with.
Woah, realplayer, you just gave me a hit of nostalgia
brave browser is free and open source tho?
It's amazing Canter & Siegel were the most hated people on the Internet at one time...
I remember using that on windows xp, maybe vista too.