“Trust” as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.

(And assuming that you can’t understand code yourself)

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    Tbf, accessing a a software running on some server (which is not my machine) over Tor isn’t exactly the same as, say, installing a software with admin privileges on my computer.

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      True that…

      Then lemme try to give the answer you were asking for.

      Let’s start with Linux. The kernel itself has hundreds, if not thousands, of contributors. Next there’s the pieces of software that run on it, each with its own set of contributors.

      There’s no way you can do anything meaningful by going thru this huge list just to see what their political backgrounds are. I’m sure there are controversial people contributing to the very pieces you are running right now.

      Even if you did find some problematic backgrounds, what are you gonna do anyway? Stop using it? Do you think it would affect them? It’s not like you’re paying them. On the contrary, you’re probably just gonna make your life harder.