• anlumo@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    That checks it only for the current session, though. The app might do nefarious things only on new moons, or on a specific date. It might also get updated at any point with completely new code without you noticing.

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        1 year ago

        Same level of paranoia that makes someone check the dev tools for data transfers in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        Actually it happens really frequently. Unless the application is open source you literally have no idea what it’s doing and corporations 100% take advantage of that fact.