• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol

      They acknowledged the remote debugging backdoor issue and fixed it a year ago.

      It was enabled due that zen was still a toy project and we needed people to easily open the debugger for easier bug fixing. This was due because zen was not in a daily drivable state and didn’t gain any sort of popularity yet.

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

      The telemetry issue is entirely different. Their handling of that is naive at best, dishonest at worst but it is completely different from the “backdoor”.