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This is a Bad Comment that tries to disguise itself as a Good Comment by going for quantity over quality. Cherry picking, misinformation, and apples-and-oranges comparisons can all be found here. For example:

> Google Authenticator

...is open source and based on open standards.

> Chrome

Chromium

> Safari

WebKit (originally derived from KHTML)

> Cloud: Open: ? buddycloud, GitLab. Closed: iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive.

The open and closed products here aren't even in the same spaces.




Google Authenticator, the one that you download from Play Store, is not open source:

> These apps are not on the app stores, and their code has diverged from what's in the app stores, so patches here won't necessarily show up in those versions.

Source: https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/blob/master/R...




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