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This is concerning because it indicates a lack of care in terms of privacy and understanding that the best privacy is achieved by knowing the least. Does this a
by marcinzm 6y ago
This is concerning because it indicates a lack of care in terms of privacy and understanding that the best privacy is achieved by knowing the least. Does this approach permeate their backend as well?
- Stevvo 6y agoA privacy focused browser shouldn't even have a backend.
- fulafel 6y agoI'm not so sure. I think the privacy-functionality trade-off is understood and expected by the users, it woul be used by very few people if it were extremely spartan. (But this instance, the favicon service, is not a good privacy-functionality trade-off)
- bad-apple 6y agoWhat would a browser even need a backend for? The only valid use that I can think of is Google's Safe Browsing list, but if ad blocking can be implemented totally on-device, surely that can, too?
- jeltz 6y agoThe use case I was going to suggest was a safe browsing list. Possibly also something like Have I been Pwned. So, yes, there are valid reasons to have a backend but they are very narrow and privacy is key when building them.