For me, using FLO apps is more about freedom from lock-in. You're right; I don't usually vet apps past the simple "is it FLO?" check (although I will do this b

For me, using FLO apps is more about freedom from lock-in. You're right; I don't usually vet apps past the simple "is it FLO?" check (although I will do this before accepting a suspicious permission). However, I do keep a copy of the source of most of the apps I use. As a result, if it were to come out that the app is doing something shady, I could remove that part and keep enjoying the functionality of the app, whereas with a proprietary app I'd be SoL. I also know that the developers know this, so they have an incentive not to do that stuff if they don't want a competing fork to take off. That is the main reason why I trust FLO apps more.