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Curl 8 and Firefox as Spyware

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 29, 2023

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curl 8 is faster

↺ curl 8 is faster

> Over the last six months or so, curl has undergone a number of refactors and architectural cleanups. The primary motivations for this have been to improve the HTTP/3 support and to offer HTTP/2 over proxy, but also to generally improve the code, its maintainability and its readability.

> A main change is the connection filters I already blogged about, but while working on this a lot of other optimizations and “quirk removals” have been performed. Most of this work done by Stefan Eissing.

Data@Mozilla: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea? [Ed: Mozilla Firefox is spyware]

↺ Data@Mozilla: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea?

> Something happened on January 5, 2023. All of a sudden we abruptly started receiving a number of pings from Firefox Desktop clients in Korea equal to two times the size of the entire Korean Firefox Desktop population.

> What happened? How did we notice it? What did we do about it?

Chris H-C: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea?

↺ Chris H-C: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea?

> :chutten

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