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by kypro 1021 days ago
Yeah, and we know it's relatively common for open source projects to end up with malicious code in them unless the project has maintainers that can be trusted.

I have LibreWolf installed and I use it from time to time (although I prefer Brave), but I don't have that much trust in project as is. I think if it had sponsorship and could afford to pay a few reputable pro-privacy developers to maintain the project then there's less risk, but as it stands is anyone honestly looking through all the source code to validate their pro-privacy claims? And even if they did, could you trust them or their releases?