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Tea@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

Zen browser(Firefox based browser) had a backdoor enabled by default.

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Tea@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago
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    From the GH issue:

    “There are multiple privacy and telemtry issues with this browser. Please see the discussion forum for people raising these issues. It seems telemetry is very much still enabled (not just a we missed some things problem).”

    Calling this a backdoor is way overblown?

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      https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927

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        This is a 7 month old pull request that has been merged.

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