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Re:Tunnl.gg by popalchemist on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:47PM (#46151975)
Fair enough from a business standpoint, but seeing as there are massive privacy/security risks involved in exposing your data to an opaque service, the open source component is probably a non-optional aspect of the value prop.
Re:Tunnl.gg by rgbrgb on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:30PM (#46153366)
how come? just because it's open source doesn't mean that they run that exact binary on their servers. ngrok does pretty well without open sourcing.
Re:Tunnl.gg by popalchemist on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:40AM (#46159491)
The locus of trust moves, if you have the source, and trust is a factor for you, because you can simply self-host and know what you're running.
Re:Tunnl.gg by PLG88 on Sunday December 07, 2025 @02:02PM (#46184126)
fwiw, ngrok started as open source