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Re:Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private... by tialaramex on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:01PM (#22467590)
What is your threat model in which somehow Mozilla's ability to serve you JavaScript is a problem because they might use it to attack you, but Mozilla having written the entire program you're running isn't a problem?
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Re:Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private... by zeveb on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:32PM (#22467933)
They can almost-indetectably target an individual user or group of users at any point in time in the former case while the latter case would leave traces in e.g. git histories.

I trust Mozilla to write Firefox and I trust Debian to package it. I do not trust Mozilla to be trustworthy on a live and ongoing basis.

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