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		wojciechpolak on Oct 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app How do you know that it doesn't contain tracking/analytics without the source code?

kepano on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

You can inspect network requests and see that nothing communicates to Obsidian servers. Since the app is Electron based you can also open up developer tools and unminify the JS code if you want to actually look at the code.

You can also check out the privacy policy here: https://obsidian.md/privacy

julienreszka on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

you don't

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