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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A rickety hole-filled system of checks and balances comprised of:
* Data protection legislation
* Platform provider (Windows, iOS) wanting to maintain a safe ecosystem and enforcing some basic standards
* White hat hackers and security analysts who find and document unethical data scraping
* Black hat hackers looking to eavesdrop on existing data scraping, which feeds into
* Consumers impacted by data scraping leaks raising hell
* Competing browsers looking to offer a selling point over those who data scrape
Ultimately it’s a fear of consequences in the form of fines, lawsuits and delisting impacting their profitability.
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