Hello, the name of this community is very long: “A community for the chromium…”

Also very misleading? It’s talking about a proprietary software with “modability” and “privacy”, both of which are properties fundamentally incompatible with proprietary software.

Just thought maybe you’d like to change the name because it’s not fitting well on many screens :)

  • @morrowindM
    1•2 years ago

    The name is way too long, I think the creator may have misunderstood what it is, but proprietary software is not fundamentally incompatible with privacy and modability.

    Also, side thing but modability isn’t a word?? Maybe it was meant to be modularity

    • @southerntofuOP
      4•2 years ago

      Nice nickname! why would you say proprietary software is not incompatible with privacy? I can understand it may be compatible with moddability, as long as you keep in the scope of a specific API (which is very limited but sure why not). But a non-free program has exactly zero ways for you to prove precisely what it’s doing with your data which sounds very hostile to privacy.

      • @morrowindM
        2•2 years ago

        As an example, if there’s no data being sent back, it doesn’t matter what it does with your data, and that’s quite easy to check. Vivaldi is almost at the point where there is 0 telemetry, but their business model requires they accurately count the number of users.

        Also, as a side, note, vivaldi is source available even though it’s proprietary, so you could still check it.

        Nice nickname!

        Thanks

        • @southerntofuOP
          3•2 years ago

          if there’s no data being sent back, it doesn’t matter what it does with your data, and that’s quite easy to check

          I sort of agree, but it’s not easy to check, really. It’s very easy to introduce backdoors that will not be detected as part of a standard test. for example, “If i receive HTTP header SUPERSECRETSTUFF then execute HTTP body in a shell and send back STDOUT/STDERR using form encoding”.

          Also, as a side, note, vivaldi is source available even though it’s proprietary, so you could still check it.

          That’s nice! Though i don’t see any links to their repository, and couldn’t find anything about reproducible builds. As a side-note: even free software can’t be proved it doesn’t have malware embedded unless the builds are fully reproducible.