Curl 8 and Firefox as Spyware
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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.
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Data@Mozilla: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea? [Ed: Mozilla Firefox is spyware]
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?
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Chris H-C: Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea?
As little as it needed solving for the sake of business needs, it still needs solving for the sake of my curiosity.
:chutten