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knob

I wouldn't trust Google with this.

Fuck no.

Why don't they help develop the Tor plugin?

Why don't the open up a whole bunch of Tor nodes?

Wait... scratch that last one.

This is just bad.

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You don't need to trust Google. They seeded the project and now it is open source ("uProxy has been developed at the University of Washington, with help from Brave New Software. The project was seeded by Google Ideas.")

uProxy is better than Tor (as long as you have a friend you can trust that has access to the content you are interested in). The problem with Tor and other proxies is that you don't know who controls the proxy or exit node, so can't trust it. Is your government running Tor nodes and logging everything and tracing it back to you? Maybe. You can't know.

uProxy is good.

Because it appears to be open source and peer to peer, so you don't need to trust Google at all?

Open source does not mean secure. Half the time nobody even reads the source, let alone compares the binaries to the repository.

It's a chrome extension, so the source you see is the code executed by your browser.

That wasn't my point. Have you ever read the source of the extensions you have installed? No. If everybody has that mentality then nothing gets "checked" and malicious code makes it though.

I have read the source of extensions I've installed.

And are you a crypto expert?

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