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Without it being open source and not providing reproducible builds, the privacy claims are borderline weightless.
Agree, but anyone competent could just sniff the traffic. (Or hopefully, lack thereof)
This. For all we know, the app could be doing all kinds of nefarious things and we wouldn't be able to tell.
even if it's open source, how would you verify that the instance is running that version of the software?
Fair point. I believe I was under the impression that this was an app rather than a served webpage. I suppose one can easily verify this by looking at how the "For You" algorithm works within the browser — all the code for functionality would be sent to the browser; though, it could potentially be obfuscated, which might be a pain.