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[–] 7 points 7 months ago

You have greater assurance of what the software is doing behind the scenes.

Even if you can't read code, others who can will; privacy groups (official and hobbyist) likely will.

You can know, even if just through others, sort of what's going on with the software in a way you simply can't with proprietary software.

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