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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T06:00:02.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Personally, vendor reputation and any recent ownership changes are the most important. Oh! Sometimes the country of the vendor.\n\n**Vendor reputation** : Once Norton started installing crypto miners with their software they lost all credibility. Avast is also part of that conglomerate and they were fined for selling users’ data without consent.\n\n**Ownership changes** : The developer of “I Don’t Care About Cookies” browser extension duly informed users of its acquisition by Avast. But trust issues with Avast/Gen Digital conglomerate led to a fork, “I Still Don’t Care About Cookies”\n\n**Vendor Country** : Many people think Kaspersky is under FSB influence. Some people don’t trust Ventoy because the dev is based in China. Ventoy is opensource but some users raised security concerns. The source tree contains binary blobs without source code. If the dev was based in the West, I don’t think the blobs issue would be a big deal.",
  "title": "What factors do you consider important when downloading a piece of software?"
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