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by shuckles 2485 days ago
At the very least, the privacy-respecting solution would be to upload hashes and only upload libraries once some critical mass of users had reported the hash along with a bug. Even then, you would only upload the files themselves from some capped number of users.
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That makes no difference from a privacy point of view but would be more respectful of people’s bandwidth limits.
Yes it does. At the very least, people running custom libraries that nobody else does would never upload data.