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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:31PM (#17674132)
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.

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Boulth on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:09PM (#17674524)
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.
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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:55PM (#17675393)
My point is that upstream can't always be trusted. With snaps there's no one between you and a potentially bad actor.
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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Boulth on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:29AM (#17677662)
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.

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