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> Basically users are okay with profiling, so long as it is quietly done by Amazon or Microsoft or Google, and not by the guy actually writing the code and giving it out for everyone to use for free.

No; the groups are approximately "cares whether software respects the user, including privacy", or "doesn't know or doesn't care". I seriously doubt that any meaningful number of people are okay with companies invading their privacy but not smaller projects.




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