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*hearing in comments certains parts aren't foss

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Their extension isn't open source anymore, see here, so I don't recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they don't trust you with the source, you can trust them with your data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While I appreciate the sentiment, isn't that effectively the same as "if the restaurant won't give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they're not trying to poison you?"

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Except a restaurant is not asking to log every word of yours in exchange for pizza.

[–] wAkawAka 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant 'NO'...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By extension do you mean the browser extensions only or also the add-on for word processor ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

tell me anything that isn't