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> Don’t you think someone — possibly a user of this site — would have noticed the network traffic? Given how much analytics garbage phones regularly spew out,
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
> Don’t you think someone — possibly a user of this site — would have noticed the network traffic?
Given how much analytics garbage phones regularly spew out, you'd have to perform HTTPS MITM attacks to check this – and that's the kind of thing that alters the behaviour of the system you're measuring.
I still don't think it's likely, but if somebody were to find some suspicious code, I have no real reason to doubt that it's doing something like this.
- rotebeete 5y ago> Given how much analytics garbage phones regularly spew out Thank god¹ android is open source. ¹ Not religious, I just don't want to thank google :\
- toomanybeersies 5y agoI wonder how Linus Torvalds feels about God taking credit for Android being open source?
- rotebeete 5y agoI wonder how all the other contributors feel about Linus getting all the credit :D
- Ieghaehia9 5y agoThank Linus?
- rotebeete 5y agoThey didn't have to make the userland, which is arguably a big part, open source so I opted for google...