Comment on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in
m_r_butts@kbin.social 1 year agoI'll do one drastic, but not unthinkable, example. The Signal messenger source is on GitHub. You can't imagine a single oppressive government out there that would be keenly interested knowing who in their country is interacting with it? Or maybe you haven't noticed that there are a lot of countries not too keen on encryption, trying to backdoor everything or just straight-up outlaw encryption. This isn't just about a single login box. "Who's looking at what" is the kind of surveillance that blacklists thrive on.
And please don't come back with "then use a fake email". Once you're that far gone, you're definitely breaking a user's "core experience".
towerful@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m clearly using GitHub wrong if the search feature is that important.
Just download the code. You don’t have to be logged in for that (that would be more of an example of enshitification). Then you can search it however you want.