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Trustworthiness of dark reader (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've noticed that dark reader on occasion phones home to darkreader.org, also with a increasing amount of sponsored links on their page. So what does everyone think, are they safe right now or should they not be trusted?

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[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Just ran a Wireshark on it for 12 hours. The only thing it ever does is a frequent ping to their home site, but includes no useful data other than an IP address if you're not on VPN. I wouldn't worry about it personally. If it's a big deal, DNS block darkreader.org or block pings to it through your firewall... Chances are it's just to download the latest css rules when they have them or something.