Mastodawn

Another hill I'm choosing to die on today: if you feel the need to hide your use of a tool, you shouldn't be using that tool.

If a tool has a "feature" where it can (try to) hide itself, to be undercover, that's a tool you should avoid.

Why? Because deep down, everyone involved knows the tool in question is unethical at best. Otherwise you - or the tool - wouldn't want to hide it.

A good tool is to be proud of. If you can't be proud of it, it's not a good tool.

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Matthias Krämer

@algernon That's Immanuel Kant's principle of publicity. He's more like: If people knew what you did would make your doing obsolete or destroy the thing you aimed to achieve in doing, you shouldn't do it in the first place, as far as public laws are concerned. But in principle it's the same.