Which is fair, but in the context of the day, and of our history, skepticism is appropriate

At some point, you become a useful idiot.

Don't fall for the trap. These people do not deserve the benefit of the doubt about anything. Stop giving it to them.

"I like to unquestioningly trust people who have repeatedly betrayed my trust in the past, just because they have a token safeguard in place. Surely they won't rug pull us again and do the thing they always do."

they will not be caught

They would get caught tho, there's always some turbo nerd that has a network monitor up and will notice the traffic being sent out. I do it sometimes when I actually have to use chrome, but that's just my growing distrust of Google.

Now, whether or not they face repercussions is another story.