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[monokrome]

That doesn't solve the original problem. It's just indirection from it... You still don't know what's going on in the background.

[sha90 → monokrome]

People don't trust Mozilla because they read the code, they trust Mozilla because they do exactly what was described above. They do the things that foster trust.

[tomp → sha90]

People trust Mozilla because someone could read the code (and probably, many people do).

[seabee → tomp]

People trust Apple and nobody else can read their code. This suggests open source is not necessary to build trust.

[xyproto → seabee]

No, people choose comfort and projecting an image of status over privacy. It's not because they trust Apple.

[drdaeman → tomp]

I'm afraid Firefox is so abysmal noone could comprehend the whole project's code. Guess, we could only review a tiny bits of it (I had briefly read sync-related parts of code in hope I could replace them with something saner and simpler, but ditched the idea) and hope others did the same for other parts.

[GuiA → monokrome]

It doesn't solve the original problem as it is stated, but it still solves the original problem. 99.99999% of Firefox users will never look at its source code, they just trust the Mozilla brand.

[lacus → monokrome]

It may not answer the technical question but it helps to resolve the human one, which is what their actual concern here is.

[tshaddox → monokrome]

It's not indirection. It's signaling.