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Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)? (sh.itjust.works)
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"Trust" as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.

(And assuming that you can't understand code yourself)

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[–] Septimaeus 5 points 1 day ago

That was largely gut-level analysis for my personal decision-making but here are a few of the things I considered:

  1. Value proposition in the context of acquisition, featuring a heavily-marketed privacy brand and a base of privacy-conscious users (harder to profile, more expensive data)
  2. Obfuscation of funding sources via ‘venture philanthropy’ non-profit (a la OpenAI) housing closed-doors for-profit operations
  3. Rapid expansion to full-coverage consumer productivity cloud platform alternatives (vpn, mail, drive, calendar, wallet, passwords, etc)
  4. Weird pattern of being blocked then let through without future contest by numerous data-hungry entities including thiel, and generally just allowed in a few too many privacy-unfriendly places for my taste
  5. And the usual reservations re: privatized privacy and commercial OSS

Again sorry that’s all hand-wavy. Probably shouldn’t have thrown shade without something more concrete.