• tabular@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It is very difficult to tell if a program is respecting user’s privacy without the source code to verify what it’s actually doing. When you can’t see or change what it does then the developer is the one in control of the computing, and even a good intentioned dev will have to resist the temptation to gain at the user’s expense.

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        3 months ago

        One advantage of FOSS is that you can fork it! VSCodium (presumably, I never really checked) takes all of the crapware out of VSCode.