The browser sees all the logins we make, with websites, usernames, and passwords in plain text. How do we know it isn’t remembering them and sending them back to the mother ship?
It’s possible someone would inspect the code of open source browsers and make a noise if they found something, but even then most people don’t build from source, so there’s no need for the source to be the same as the downloaded app.
2FA makes it less of a problem, but there are still plenty of juicy pickings for the evil browser.
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If you weren’t willing to trust any browser, you probably wouldn’t be willing to trust any computer operating system either. So you’d never type anything private into any computer that’s ever going to be connected to the internet.
So it’s just a question of whether the benefits of using a computer with the internet are enough to make it worth it for you to choose to trust makers of the browser, the OS, and all the other software on your machine that could access your private files.
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