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Exactly. I'm not sure where the author of this article has got the idea that MetaMask is a custodial crypto wallet provider, because it isn't.

It is however entirely reliant on infura.

That's a default rpc provider to get Blockchain requests out and data in. aAnd you can change that to any rpc provider in the settings.

And you can do without MetaMask with a few lines of Javascript.