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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Closed source apps do not allow us to verify they do not actually steal our data or profile us. Liftoff for life

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whens the last time you personally checked the source code of an app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I heard a story about an open source Minecraft hack client that was openly stealing discord authentication tokens, and nobody noticed for weeks because the only people who check the source code are people who plan on modifying it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But it was discovered. What if it was not open source?

But in general open source means freedom. Freedom of not being subject to the developer's choices, freedom to analyze the code etc