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> …it also makes me feel weird that the first bulk of the argument is dedicated to they reviewed their own code and it totally checked out.

Are you referring to Mozilla reviewing the Ad Observer code? If I’m not mistaken that was built by the university researchers, not Mozilla. Also, the code is open source. As Mozilla says, if you’re uncomfortable taking their word for it, they link directly to the open source Ad Observer code so people can see exactly what it is and is not doing.

I think it’s understandable that you might be uneasy, but we can all see exactly what it’s collecting.



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