<story><title>Gimp 3 Beta Released</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alophawen</author><text></text></item><item><author>alimov</author><text>The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.</text></item><item><author>vore</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s stopping GIMP from doing the same thing? It has more access to the network than your browser.</text></item><item><author>dankwizard</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bisRepetita</author><text>Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning.&lt;p&gt;So I don&amp;#x27;t understand the snark, and how it is helpful.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gimp 3 Beta Released</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alophawen</author><text></text></item><item><author>alimov</author><text>The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.</text></item><item><author>vore</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s stopping GIMP from doing the same thing? It has more access to the network than your browser.</text></item><item><author>dankwizard</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinclift</author><text>Hmmm, &amp;quot;web tech&amp;quot; includes DRM stuff these days.  So that&amp;#x27;s not 100% always true any more.</text></comment>