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Or that Linux users would instantly raise a hue and cry on seeing ads?

Kind of like how scammers use bad grammar on purpose to weed out the people too smart to be a victim.

Yes, now that you mention it - they deliberately tried to design their dragnet to exclude victims who were likely to be problematic. :)

Isn’t that the infamous “security by obscurity”?

More or less.

As I recall, the few Mac home users in the mid-2000s were talking about how Macs couldn't get viruses as a selling point.

A few home users?

No, I meant a tongue-in-cheek statement that Linux is the only worthwhile desktop because it's not affected :P

not the website owner but people involved in the PUP ecosystem.

i'm sure that if installcore supported linux, then the linux binaries would also be bundlers.