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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by sillysaurusx on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:18AM (#23711075)
Yeah... the gesture is nice, but good luck extracting any code from a massive project. Might as well say “Here’s some free oil; all you have to do is dig for it.” Unlike oil, this might not be worth the excavation.

It’s a bit telling that they linked to the GitHub repositories rather than specific lines of code they were talking about.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by _hl_ on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:15AM (#23711397)
Here's their kotlin implemenation, looks fairly straightforward/self-contained: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/ma...
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by st3fan on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:33AM (#23712076)
Android components is a foundational technology for our browser products on Android but also for many other applications. We’ve designed things in such a way that you can pull in just those things that you need. If that is not the case, file an issue and we will take a look at how to improve things.
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jan_Inkepa on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:11AM (#23711380)
Looking at the iOS project linked, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/76faae8c6... , other than being written swift, it looks pretty self-contained/ok?
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by st3fan on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:35AM (#23712085)
There is also a content script I think and storage for these icons and their meta data. It is probably less generic on iOS than on Android but should be fairly simply to take some big chunks for reuse.
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by bad_user on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:05AM (#23711346)
Yeah, let's violate privacy instead.
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