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Lenovo are particularly egregious. They collect data from Conduit via their toolbar add on (Conduit is one of the worst malware makers out there - they are owned by Perion/CodeFuel). Lenovo refuse to disclose they do this, in fact I have support emails denying they do.

Further info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653111

Then there is Superfish...

Who knows what else they are going?




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