Telemtry and privacy issues with the browser · Issue #5947 · zen-browser/desktop
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Captchas I have read the instructions. I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates. I am not filing an enhancement request. What happened? There are multiple privacy and telemtr...
    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 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”.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The “backdoor” mentioned in a single reply is very different from the telemetry issue. https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 was fixed a year ago.

    I agree the telemetry should be either disabled or at the very least users should just get a config tab on first launch to opt out but the Lemmy submission is misleading and bordering on fake news.