[lucb1e]

> many of them with a left-wing/civil liberties attitude.

Well they seem awfully quiet about all the privacy invading stuff Google does, considering the number you claim they're in.

[pyre]

It's probably easy to dismiss/justify some of those things when you can view the code yourself to see that nothing "bad" is happening (at least at the current time). It's a little harder to rectify Google blatantly lying about something e2e encryption even if nothing "bad" is happening with it.