I guess I’m curious because it seems to me that when a company is beloved like Readwise is right now - it’s all forgivable. No 2FA and selling your data potentially down the road, no biggie - this is common practice.
But when it’s a note taking app, everyone has to have end to end encryption and privacy. A lot of us - myself included - seem to cherry pick our “must haves” and our “dealbreakers” to justify the “cool apps” to ourselves.
Example:
Readwise has a potentially shady security hole. Eh, all apps do.
Evernote doesn’t have end to end encryption - oh, I need end to end, that’s why I choose Obsidian.
Our biases for siding with the cool apps, when you look across the spectrum of the things we tell ourselves - a lot of it doesn’t square up. If app A does it it’s fine, if app B does it in another thread - huge red flag, I’d never use that app because of it. Just find it odd I guess
I do it too. Just taking note of it.