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I appreciate the honesty, and the reality is that most add-on developers have a price; a lot of people would probably sell their add-on for $10M.

But these things auto update. If a government (or even just a moderately big org) really wants to spy on someone, and they determine that said someone uses IPvFoo, $10M isn't a very large price to pay to just get complete access to the target's web browser.

This isn't specific to your add-on in any way, but, well... that seems ripe for takeover by someone nefarious.




If your threat model includes a government...


Which it kinda should? It's not as if governments universally have proven themselves to not do messed up shit and not violate people's privacy


As a member of your country's public society at large, sure (media campaigns, propaganda, government contracts for IT equipment and infrastructure). For individual targeting.. not many people.




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