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I was fine with the Shield Studies program when I understood it to be a tool for improving the browser.

This is clearly an abuse of a development/testing/telemetry tool to deliver an advertisement.

Trust is hard to win and easily lost.



Take a look at the existing studies: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php




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