I'm kinda hoping it was just that a state sponsored attacker showed up on their door and said "include this snippet or else..." otherwise it's terrifying thinking of someone planning some long con like this
We are all relying on the honesty of a few overworked volunteers...
From that post, commits set to UTC+0800 and activity between UTC 12-17 indicate that the programmer wasn't operating from California but from another country starting with C. The name is also another hint.
Unrelated, I really like the idea that the author of that blog post to place the favicon near each link
TIL that my country has bended over the copyright trolls and blocked Archive.is, need a VPN to view...
From the website:
With Midori Browser you can browse the web with complete confidence and an advanced tracking blocker.
Then the next paragraph states:
Cryptotoken: To reward our users, we are organizing an initiative a Token to give users to use our products and services without tracking.
So it blocks tracking but adds more tracking, so users can buy some shitcoin to remove the tracking?
I'm glad that their forks of simple mobile tools didn't gain traction, then
I'm disappointed, I expected a meme instead it's spam 😢😢😢😢😭😭
It's available on an unofficial repository that can be optionally added to fdroid, it's not available on fdroid
On mobile you're forced to use their "open source" app that is only available on the closed source app stores and not on fdroid because it uses Google push services
This post is ironic, but the united states by showing their muscles and forbidding Huawei to use newer arm CPU designs or x86 chips without a specific export license, let the Chinese government to create a secret multibillion fund for RISC -V development
My iMac on debian does the same, black screen on boot
Still, if an user prefers the convenience of using any client instead of e2e, could enable it in a setting. Maybe the user subscribed because they liked the interface and the overall features of the plan, and not because of the encrypted email solution and just wants to add the account on the mobile client instead of a dedicated app
Being closed like this IMHO is just to increase user retention
But it also come with extra privileges like going to exclusive parties where powerful UV lights can cause eye damage