Tea@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agoZen browser(Firefox based browser) had a backdoor enabled by default.news.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@fedia.io
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkZen browser(Firefox based browser) had a backdoor enabled by default.news.ycombinator.comTea@programming.dev to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square3fedilinkcross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.worldfirefox@fedia.io
minus-squarekrash@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoFrom 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?
minus-squareTea@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agohttps://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927
minus-squareByteMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoThis is a 7 month old pull request that has been merged.
From the GH issue:
Calling this a backdoor is way overblown?
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927
This is a 7 month old pull request that has been merged.