[GuillaumeHr]

You are right! To be honest: Ninja Cookie is really young and this is the first time I try to post on hackernews and I didn't plan to get all those comments. Because Ninja Cookie is really young, we are still thinking on our business model. We would like to open our sources so that you will be confident but we need first to find the right business model. No business model = no futur. And we want a futur for our Ninja Cookie. :) Meanwhile, you need to trust us :/

[zamalek]

The reason this comment is probably being so poorly received is that, as users, we have to look no further than the Adblock Plus shitshow. That was a pro-privacy/pro-user addon that was acquired and then silently started tracking users.

We can't trust you in the mean-time because we have hard proof that we should never trust addon publishers, especially where "free" plugins are concerned.

You need to figure out what your monetization is ASAP.

[tpoacher]

Assume I trust you, and tomorrow your CEO changes. Or you're acquired by Google. You're basically asking me to trust Google. And with an addon that apparently:

"needs to: Access browser tabs Access browser activity during navigation Access your data for all websites"

no less.

[samename]

Trust is earned, and unfortunately, hard to come by these days when privacy is concerned.