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And you as a customer can simply stop using their services if you no longer trust their intentions and (and this is a very clear and straightforward point) the company and the new controlling power would have nothing on you. Because it did not exist in the first place.

Why are so many of you so keen for them to be "wrong"? Like what even is the alternative approach here supposed to be? Don't build a product in the first place?

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> And you as a customer can simply stop using their services if you no longer trust their intentions

The original premise of the article is we don’t have to be concerned with their intentions. This is false.

> Why are so many of you so keen for them to be "wrong"?

I’d rather they were right. But they are wrong.

> Like what even is the alternative approach here supposed to be? Don't build a product in the first place?

Don’t say you can do things you can’t.

I don’t have to offer a solution to point out they’re not offering one either.

No you see, at any moment this company can get acquired and can start pushing malware as updates. It's quite an elementary mistake to not account for this possibility, and the author of this post should hang their head in shame for even pretending to have a solution. /s

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