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Not saying the service owner is a bad guy but this is in the category of online tools that always makes me nervous, along with:

- password strength checkers

- JSON, YAML, EDN, whatever prettiers

- checksum generators

- Base64 (en|de)coders

- etc.

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Password strength checkers when signing up to a websitr don't send anything over the wire. They generally just analyze the entropy of a password and give live feedback to improve password strength. Why do they make your nervous?

at least with some of those you can verify nothing is going over the wire via network inspection tab, with this you're guaranteed everything is going over the wire and there's no way to prove they aren't inspecting your traffic.

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