> 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

> 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.