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bagacrap on March 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move...

This distinction seems somewhat meaningless in practice. Are you going to audit every line of every extension you install, assuming it's all local code? And are you going to do this again every time it's (automatically) updated?

alisonkisk on March 9, 2021 [–]

Yes. This is exactly what happened with Great Suspender, which led to Google being succesfully pressured to ban it.

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