Personally I tend to avoid running untrustworthy programs outside of a sandbox or VM.
what does that mean? are you not running any programs at all? you cannot know just by looking at the name if a program reads such sensitive info. and its not unlikely that some developer figured it would be a good idea to include it in automatic crash reports
yes, this is sensitive information. its like your fingerprint, you cannot change it. I think its quite obvious. web browsers firefox is fighting to hide more and more that even indirectly could lead to identification. websites can’t read this ID, this is just a comparison.
what does that mean? are you not running any programs at all? you cannot know just by looking at the name if a program reads such sensitive info. and its not unlikely that some developer figured it would be a good idea to include it in automatic crash reports
yes, this is sensitive information. its like your fingerprint, you cannot change it. I think its quite obvious.
web browsersfirefox is fighting to hide more and more that even indirectly could lead to identification. websites can’t read this ID, this is just a comparison.I can know from the code ;P
have you ever used Gentoo? if you do, you know how long it takes to build updated software from source code.
vetting all that, even just the changes would take a lot more time. and it’s a constant effort.
Never used gentoo but i do build the software i use often
First of all, I am, like you and everyone else not alone in this, and for changes it’s sooo easy thanks to Git
yes, git is a godsend. but who will you trust that they checked the new code, and found nothing bad? different people have different expectations too.
Idk about other peoples, i usually do this with friends so idk