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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is it open source? If no, proton can suck my stroganoff.

Edit: The official subreddit of Proton says that it is a proprietary CAPTCHA system. Great.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proton has opened sourced everything so far and I would expect them to do that here. They have whole pages written on why they open source everything and why that helps privacy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a proprietary CAPTCHA, the sources say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open source and free (as in free speech) are two separate concepts, software can be open source and proprietary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Give me the source code then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Stroganoff is quite good if cooked correctly, may I try a taste of it? I'm messing with you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does it say that both the front end and back end are proprietary, or just the back end? I'd be fine with a closed source back end

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing is mentioned other than "proprietary system". Probably meaning that both ends are closed source. I don't see how I can verify whether it respects my privacy or not. I don't see a reason to implement this instead of mCAPTCHA, which is fully FOSS.