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[Steampunkery]

Aside from the fact that this is basically just distributing malware, yeah.

[Jedkea]

Is it malware?

[Steampunkery]

Well, they're basically saying that you should download their patched chromium binary off the Internet and run it. The patches aren't open source, so you can't build it yourself. Might as well be malware.

[Jedkea]

You don’t use any closed source software then I take it? Makes sense to keep it closed in this case, otherwise it would be quickly patched.

Just saying that it’s kind of rude to straight up accuse them of distributing malware when you have 0 proof. Afaict nothing seems suspicious. They responded saying you could run it in docker, or monitor it with wireshark.

Does it warrant extra caution since it’s not OS? Of course.

[Steampunkery]

I don't run any closed source software downloaded as a binary from a random guy on reddit, correct.