[JohnFen]

> how do you stay informed about what software is problematic?

It's a loose heuristic. Primarily, I base it on word-of-mouth, whether or not the publisher/dev is known to have used tracking/telemetry in their other products, whether it contains ads, whether it in some way requires an external server, that sort of thing.

> what would be an example of "an extremely good reason"?

The last time, it was to install an authenticator app that I needed in order to authenticate for my work accounts.

> what VPN solution do you have?

I use OpenVPN for this.

[tavro]

thanks! valid!