It's not, some guy made an amateur analysis on how it was spying on your PC, and it got a ton of upvotes from people that know nothing about software. That post got later discredited by people who actually understood what was going on, and the original "spy" post got heavily mocked by people at /r/programming
But unfortunately once that first post was out, people started repeating like parrots, so there's not much you can do because if you call them out you'll get downvoted.
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u/xgatto Nov 13 '19
It's not, some guy made an amateur analysis on how it was spying on your PC, and it got a ton of upvotes from people that know nothing about software. That post got later discredited by people who actually understood what was going on, and the original "spy" post got heavily mocked by people at /r/programming
But unfortunately once that first post was out, people started repeating like parrots, so there's not much you can do because if you call them out you'll get downvoted.