Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users
by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:31PM
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Mozilla is the one adding the spyware, though.
https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
>Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit.
Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users
by Boulth on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:09PM
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And upstream issues such as this one should be fixed in upstream not patched endlessly with every other distro. That's the approach promoted by Arch Linux.
Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users
by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:55PM
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My point is that upstream can't always be trusted. With snaps there's no one between you and a potentially bad actor.
Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users
by Boulth on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:29AM
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If you don't trust upstream why are you running their code?
I don't think it's reasonable for such a small group of people as Debian developers (or any other maintainers) to review each change looking for potentially malicious code. Especially in codebases as big as Firefox.
Mozilla has some interesting technical solutions to this problem: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency