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Comment by rgbrgb

3 months ago

how come? just because it's open source doesn't mean that they run that exact binary on their servers. ngrok does pretty well without open sourcing.

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popalchemist  2 months ago

The locus of trust moves, if you have the source, and trust is a factor for you, because you can simply self-host and know what you're running.

PLG88  2 months ago

fwiw, ngrok started as open source

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