Never underestimate the human capacity for short-sighted laziness.

Writing was on the wall after they lost their Amazon and USPS bids. Their entire model was based on landing fleet contracts.

That’s like saying bank robberies being illegal mean that going to the bank is illegal.

Honey is unlawful because of what they DO by changing those URLs and cookies, e.g enriching themselves at the expense of creators.

If you’re concerned, you can use an android firewall to block Internet access from the app aside from your sync server.

But to be clear, the concern voiced in that thread is not the privileges that obsidian has, it’s that other apps can read the obsidian notes. So your risk profile will vary with what notes you take.

I use obsidian + self hosted Live Sync https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync. My data is fully encrypted and stays with me and my devices. The apps themselves are incredible, absolutely packed with features and the community is extremely engaged and actively developing awesome plugins to further extend the capabilities.

The only downside is that it’s closed source, but the data format is widely understood, so if obsidian went belly up for some crazy reason there are import tools for basically every open source platform.