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It’s honest. You can trust Ljdawson with your lemmy data, I do, but that’s the nature of closed source.
I don’t think the warning needs to be that big though heh.
Makes sense to be on that site, since a lot of Lemmy users are probably interested at least in part due to the FOSS nature of it. Maybe it doesn’t need to be phrased as a “warning” though, more just as an FYI. Seems like it could scare people away thinking it’s a data harvesting tool, but such is life.
There’s only two reasons to own something:
- To fuck someone over with it, or,
- To avoid being fucked by someone else with it.
It is a warning and I think they’re being pretty gentle with this needlessly proprietary bullshit
How does my toothbrush fuck anyone over?
When the companies colluded to price fix, you get fucked for not having stockpiled
I find warnings like this rather amusing, because unless you compiled it yourself, even an open source application could secretly have malicious data-harvesting code added to it.
Isn’t the point of open source that you can check the code for yourself though? Can’t do that with closed source
F-Droid has verified and reproducible builds.
On the Play Store or iOS App Store, though, anything goes.
