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wiseowisetoday at 1:51 PM1 replyview on HN

> and other than its almost complete lack of settings

And being made by Russians and used by Russian government.


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smcleodtoday at 9:46 PM

Yeah I'm aware it sort of is (technically it's Latvian and there's a Russian holding company that owns that I think?) but at least it is open source and can be run locally and offline without any network connection (I have things blocked by default with LittleSnitch as well) https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/serious-claims-made-agai.... Russian software is pretty obviously more likely than most other countries to have security / privacy concerns doesn't inherently mean that it all does, American software presents a lot of privacy concerns internationally as well (not that I am by any means calling them equivalents!).