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Honestly, I find that in many cases I would trust an anonymous random Joe more than a company because they can be more mission driven and limited in their ambition than a growth driven tech company. Firefox keeps trying to push advertising while keeping it private, trying to get people to subscribe to a VPN subscription. Google actively undermines adblocking extensions with Manifest v3 and Web Integrity API. Edge tries to monetize your browsing data by trying to randomly sign your browser in your Microsoft account and sync your bookmarks, history, and passwords to their cloud and keep trying to get you to use their chatbot. There are several more examples.

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> Honestly, I find that in many cases I would trust an anonymous random Joe more than a company because they can be more mission driven and limited in their ambition than a growth driven tech company.

If it is a random Joe and not, say, a malicious effort of a major government posing as one. That's the problem.