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DO NOT USE THIS
This is a massive security risk and they have had so much controversy. They also routinely delete Github issues and discussions that question them. To top it off they are likely Chinese run.
China is good though? At least that ensures they aren't a CIA operation.
Not really. At this point, you're having to pick between two surveillance states.
or neither, when cloosing open source tools worth their salt. in more and more fields such tools appear, fortunately