wut?
Online Spyware Watchdog
Mason Carter
James Carter
that was a few years ago and it appropriately caused a shitstorm, google initially on their bug tracker claimed that nothing was wrong of course and just shut up and eat the binary blob but changed course after the outrage and removed it before debian and every other distro removed chromium from their repositories.
Hunter Gray
debian butthurt
bugs.debian.org
google saying shut up and take the blob
Comment 14 by mgiuca@chromium.org, Jun 19 2015#11: "If the software downloads and installs a closed-source binary, how do we know when it runs and when it doesn't?"Because the open source software has complete control of when the binary runs. You can look in the source code to see when it decides to start up and shut down the hotword module (I gave instructions on how to do that in the other bug).Providing an extra step to install the module would be unnecessary friction for our users. There is literally no difference between downloading the module (without running it), and not downloading it, except a tiny amount of bandwidth saved. There is no difference from a privacy or security standpoint, because unless we run it, it can't do anything, no matter what behaviour it might contain within.#13: "Once the blob is on the system the security risks have been increased". From our perspective, the blob is just another part of the Chrome codebase (just with a weird delivery mechanism). You could make a similar claim for any feature of Chrome, "it shouldn't be installed unless I ask for it." But that's not how software works. We don't download individual features of an application on demand. It's your choice whether to enable a given feature. But users generally don't get a choice of *which* features are downloaded when you download software. That's just never been the way software has worked.
google shutting it down
Comment 24 by pkasting@chromium.org, Jun 19 2015Labels: Restrict-AddIssueComment-EditIssueThe bug tracker is for tracking technical development work, not debating policy or, even more, ranting about how Google is evil and you're deleting all Google software from your devices.Closing to additional comments.
google removing the hotword module from chromium due to MSM picking it up and causing outrage
Project Member Comment 25 by bugdroid1@chromium.org, Jun 24 2015The following revision refers to this bug: chromium.googlesource.com
Kevin Bennett
Wyatt Walker
you can also reverse engineer closed source software, no matter how complex it is
free software is an illusion
Brayden Hall
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Matthew Sanders
Bloated and complex free software is still low quality due to an increased number of bugs. Also it's a disgrace to the name of free software.
Mason Diaz
I wrote an article about the HTTP protocol:
spyware.neocities.org
Maybe it turned into a little bit of a rant at the end, but I think it's important to write things like these, because I can't find the same opinion anywhere online besides a few posts on Zig Forums now and then, and those aren't a permanent resource for people to learn about those ideas.
It being 2018 doesn't make Unicode necessary for this site: also, the punctuation is correct either way.
That's a good idea, but why are you responding to yourself as if I responded to you, writing it off? I don't understand.
I actually received an email once that, among other things, linked to a GitHub account that automatically uploaded obfuscated JavaScript code that it extracted from Discord every time it updated, claiming that this "solved the problem" of Discord not being Open Source. (this is it , if you're curious: github.com
Parker Morris
(me) is not the same person as .
Austin Murphy
No. Whatever you do don't add more js and css into it. It's fine now. You should just add a small icon next to each program under "browse articles".