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Yes, exactly, clicking a link. An action taken by the user. Before the bit of code in question was reverted back to its normal behavior, just the act of launchi
by morganvachon 11y ago
Yes, exactly, clicking a link. An action taken by the user. Before the bit of code in question was reverted back to its normal behavior, just the act of launching the Chromium browser for the first time would silently download and activate the binary blob, the user was completely out of the picture and had no control over it. There's a huge difference.
- ryanlol 11y agoI don't know if that's a huge difference, considering the binary blob provably doesn't do anything (you should be complaining about).
- morganvachon 11y agoI'm not complaining about what it does, I'm complaining about how it was delivered. If someone breaks into my house to put a new TV on the table, I'm still going to feel violated. Google broke the trust the open source community had in them, by silently flipping a switch that surreptitiously downloads a binary blob. They have now gone on record saying that was wrong and have reversed the change going forward. Good on them for that, but as far as I'm concerned that trust is irrevocably broken.