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recoving files from a mac disk and w o n d e r s h a r e is unethical

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If you search for cgsecurity.org testdisk, which is a free opensource utility to recover data from a disk, you get SEO'ed to w o n d e r s h a r e 's website. Whilst w o n d e r s h a r e  does make good software, I think this is entirely unethical. Hence I decided to make this blogpost to help others avoid paying them when free software exists and they are being predators trying to hide this fact by SEO'ing free software to their commercial site. Let me explain how unethical this is. It is like if you google for "wikipedia" and it opens encyclopedia britannica as the first thing and offers you a subscription only option to read the contents. So, if you have lost files on a disk, try cgsecurity.org first. https://www.tecmint.com/photorec-recover-deleted-lost-files-in-linux/ These instructions work for mac except you type the following into the Terminal brew install testdisk and then sudo photorec /dev/disk6 or whatever the drive number is of the drive. In my cas