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Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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They acknowledged the remote debugging backdoor issue and fixed it a year ago.
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927
The telemetry issue is entirely different. Their handling of that is naive at best, dishonest at worst but it is completely different from the "backdoor".
Fair, I was referring to the referenced issue in the comments on this post.
What was surprising to me, is that there were many comments, and mentions of devs, yet no acknowledgment or getting linked to another issue.
That is a red flag to me.
What do you mean? The dev did acknowledge it and linked to a relevant discussion.