Those third-party clients have some essential, basic functionality that the official ones for some reason lack. Signal-cli allows registering from desktop without any smartphone, Molly allows an arbitrary Socks proxy instead of being limited to just Signal’s own proxy solution, tying a desktop client with a link instead of scanning a QR code (thus allowing easy registration from an Android VM), and maybe most importantly for some - Notifications not relying on Google (Molly-Socket allows it to use UnifiedPush).

Even before I cared about privacy, I think Apple would’ve been unacceptable to me due to how tightly locked down it is. Like… I’d have to go through hoops and pay some money for a cert (not much if you know where to look, but still) to get something as basic as an adless Youtube client.

Iceberg explanations are a whole Youtube genre, though - it’s such a convenient narrative structure.

IDK how it is where you are, but I don’t ever give my address to stores. Even when buying online, I pick up my orders in the stores’ physical offices (the delivery to your door always costs extra anyway, unlike this). Yeah, that does limit my choice, but I kinda never think about that, just go with the stores that do have offices. Unless we’re talking about the biggest universal marketplaces that are pretty much our Amazon, they usually take cash. Recently, I’ve been ordering there without even creating an account on the websites - just asking an employee to make an order for me to later pick up at the same place.

GeoGebra! Our school used it for demonstration on the lessons and had us do homework in there! Have good memories of it.