Google web services take advantage of an API that only Google knows about.
Completely unsurprising. Google should have been given the anti-trust treatment long ago. There's not a saving us because the ones to save us are completely complicit. And people who write independent browsers will be smacked back down by having places like YouTube throttle them.
This is why we need to all back firefox...
I dont care if the CEO sucks, or if they have some opt-out anti-features....
Chrome monopoly is a far greater threat
Google should have been given the anti-trust treatment long ago
Lina Khan on the horizon looming ominously.
Remember this thumb rule -> if it's not open-source, you are allowing the software to do whatever it wants to do.
No regulation, law, support group is going to help you. You are digging your own grave.
I agree, but... This was in open source software. Chromium. Not just Google Chrome. https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443
hangout_services/thunk.js (via) It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
This is included in the chromium source code which is public
If it's any software you didn't write yourself or audit every line of...
For a typical Linux distro that's tens of thousands of packages...
I am no expert on code-auditing. But I'm slightly at peace that there are 100s of experts looking at the code because it's open-source. But i also understand mistakes can still happen. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best solution so far.
There's some truth to that, but bad actors have managed to slip things through in the past. It happened recently with xz.
I guess my point is that we put a lot of trust in strangers when we run any code on our systems. Open or not.
True. We can also not run code at all and be perfectly safe.
I wish there was a comparison. Number of 0days in open source and 0days in closed source for comparible projects and a measure for time to mitigate the 0days.
Hopefully no one comes in here and tells me Firefox does shit like this as well... I just swapped back.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
