I’ve been using obsidian for about a year now, and I really like it. However, since it’s an electron app, and since most plugins for it are written in some variant of Javascript, and since I put semi-important stuff in there, I’m constantly checking plugins to make sure they don’t make unwanted network connections. I find it pretty horrifying that web-based technologies tend to just make network connections freely, without first checking with the user that they’re OK with it.

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