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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Who's excusing anything here?

This is a pihole/Adguard home type service with centralized blocklists. No more, no less.

As far as I am aware "they" cannot inject anything into any website. That would require some pretty nifty mitm attack.

I have not personally reviewed all of the code, but the people making AsusWRT-merlin that this router runs have a pretty good idea about it. I will let RMerlin speak on this issue, knowing more about this than myself.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/384-6-now-sharing-data-to-trend-micro.48202/page-9#post-540572

It is definitely something to be aware of and consider for yourself. But just maybe people have some knee jerk reactions sometimes that are not helpful.