Since you noticed the bias, let me give you the real dark history of both Techlore and PrivacyGuides ( Jonah Argon ) and how they took over Privacy Tools.io and closed their subreddit.

https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover

Don't trust Privacy YouTubers, trust experts who know what they're talking about

Not just you :)

They are taught about it from childhood

in one single word >> Indoctrinated

OP this is why people believe in religion, and it's nearly impossible to get them out of it, you can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into in the first place

About "Security theater":

keep in mind that companies can lie on how their stuff works, also I don't think the nature of the store matters, as much as the fact that you're only allowed to get the open source apps from there which will also run on top of a proprietary OS, with proprietary firmware

Gaslighting their customers": I'd like to see hard proof on that

Consider that I have a low standard on what a hard proof should be,.. I consider telling people that : "Privacy, that's iPhone", while literally developing nothing in the open, which is the best and ONLY way to guarantee transparency, instead they went with the "trust me bruh" method, plus they display ads... like.....they have... a.. dedicated.. ad .. platform...

You don't respect my Privacy while you target me with ads

Yes you can, any help is appreciated and welcomed 🫶

Ok, but you still can age? so imagine being much older than your peers, they'll think you're sick ...lol

It gets worse when you watch his interview with Tucker Carlson .. guy said if a government forces us to censor a group it'll only censored from the app you get from big tech play stores... That's horseshit... If you censor a group from your platform, it'll be removed from all people's feeds regardless of their clients or from where they got the app...

I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now (btw).

I wonder why people don't say : I don't use Arch BTW.. ?

But why take a chance?

This could be a simple answer as : I don't wanna cause inconveniences to my users to a more complexe one such as.... umm, ideological reasons... I don't want to see a project I started get archived or taken down..

Let them prove themselves.

It's a requirement..

to me finding mainteners is part of what makes a FOSS project successful

Great, now you're giving the glowies your eyes while looking like an alien

Apple fanboyism is beyond me..