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May 16, 2026
Can’t edit my post so I just wanted to add:
(They also refused to condemn the Russian invasion in Ukraine.)
It is understandable why they wouldn’t while in Russia but they never moved out or stopped operating there.
0 transparency - private internal issue trackers, commits referencing them
commits referencing only them and no other description
So there are numerous moral and jurisdictional issues and I also wanted to highlight the not open source thing further:
- Codebase includes binary blobs and obfuscated code
- Mobile apps are not open source, just proprietary wrappers
- Broken build instructions
- If this was some small, indie team wanting to fork it without a legal team or the recognition to warrant an official account of the FSF they could be sued out of existence making the entire codebase effectively propietary (against Privacy Guides’ criteria).
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