Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
I advise not reading that bug, some of the later comments will give you brain cancer.<p><a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909#51" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909#51</a><p>Downvotes? So you agree with this?<p>"I seriously consider the good faith of an such upstream which does these kinds of things"<p>"But basically secretly downloading it leads to the question of possible malicious intent (and everyone knows that Google&Co. do voluntarily and/or forcibly cooperate with NSA and friends)."<p>"while I haven't looked at the code, I wouldn't even be surprised if the downloading itself is done insecurely."<p>"Worse, chromium isn't the only such rootkit-downloader,... e.g. FF which secretly downloaded the OpenH264 blob."<p>Really if you condone this attitude then I can only say...well I won't say it but it isn't nice. Not only that, everyone seemingly ignores the: "Note that the binary blob is executed throught native client, which is not enabled by default" part.<p>You people are so beyond reasonableness I find myself defending Chrome/Google. I can't believe this.