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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by ajross on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:12AM (#17281982)
Heartbleed was a very subtle security bug, the discussion here is about privacy violations. You think that detecting if, I dunno, mutt is secretly uploading your contact list is going to escape detection for years?
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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by dmitriid on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:45AM (#17282515)
It will. IIRC HomeBrew’s integration of Goigle Analytics went unnoticed for almost a year, and only then they included an opt-out option (it’s still opt-in by default)
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