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There's also elements of selection bias as well. If you're highly transparent it's likely that people who value that will be drawn to your product, so when you subsequently take steps to reduce that transparency somewhat (such as roping in a third party from an industry known to engage in shady things), and make it mandatory for users in the most intrusive way possible, it's likely to garner a bigger backlash than for a less transparent product because your user base cares about that sort of thing more.