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Seems unnecessarily pessimistic. AdBlock has been on the chrome store without much issue despite being directly opposed to Google's business model.


The US government creating a secret law that authorizes a secret court to order Google to siphon all of its cleartext data to the NSA is also a bit pessimistic. The value proposition of the featured plugin is that it protects you from Google snooping on what you do through the means of technology. While I am very glad there is a discussion of the subject, I am saying that the technology the plugin uses is fundamentally flawed and can never be fixed. Because of that, it provides no real security. It is in the same league as setting the root password on your server to "root" and changing the sshd port: obscure but not secure.




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