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endsandmeans commented on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data   qcontinuum.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/qcontinuum1
randunel · a month ago
How do you check that the open sourced code is the same one that you are installing from the extension repository and actually running?
endsandmeans · a month ago
I agree but let me play the devil's advocate. I'll channel Stallman:

Same argument can be applied to all closed source software.

In the end its about who you trust and who needs to be verified and that is relative, subjective, and contextual... always.

So unless you can read the source code and compile yourself on a system you built on an OS you also built from source on a machine built before server management backdoors were built into every server... you are putting your trust somewhere and you cannot really validate it beyond wider public percetptions.

endsandmeans commented on Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data   qcontinuum.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/qcontinuum1
endsandmeans · a month ago
Most of them jump out as immediately dodgy -- except Stylsh. That is the only one I've ever used on the list but it's been several years.
endsandmeans commented on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/andsoitis
endsandmeans · 6 months ago
When the state picks the winners everyone loses.

Run it into the ground!

u/endsandmeans

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