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[–] kane@femboys.biz 54 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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".

[–] kane@femboys.biz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair, I was referring to the referenced issue in the comments on this post.

What was surprising to me, is that there were many comments, and mentions of devs, yet no acknowledgment or getting linked to another issue.

That is a red flag to me.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

What do you mean? The dev did acknowledge it and linked to a relevant discussion.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

are you really surprised? that bugreport did not contain a single actionable detail. and then it refers to some forum without any real reference, name or URL. there may be truth to it, and the other issue was actually very important and ridiculous, but this issue report is a big wontfix, reopen with real details

[–] Inf_V@kbin.earth 7 points 4 days ago

Industry plant browser lol

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Because its a stupid issue. The complaint is that a Firefox fork acts like Firefox.