Legitimate interest is a way for the vendors to not need your confirmation. In general, your right to privacy is valued against the vendor’s right to operate. The most often used example is advertisement: in general, vendors are allowed to advertise, as they want to operate and sell their products. But you have a right to your data (e.g. mail adress, home adress, interests…). So courts have to value what is more important. Another example that most people would agree is that clubs want to show what happens in the club, so they publish pictures from their activities (interest of club to show they are active vs personal right to your image). As not every case goes to court, most vendors see their interest as more important and interpret “legitimate” interest rather loosely. So in general, the idea of legitimate interest is compliant with the GDPR, although I believe most sites use it too liberal.

Just a quick note for the Privacy Policy, Data Processing Agreement and Cookie Policy: this EU law (GDPR) and is mandatory for all EU states. So its not specific to Germany.

That would be another option and a win-win scenario, I like it.

I think one thing that is often overlooked is supporting a good idea. I heard/read often enough that people like the ability to repair or tweak their laptops so maybe this is another reason to buy one. In the hope, that the company delivers more and better in the future.

This one is great! Made me think way too much

I feel you concerning the dependency on third-party plugins. There are many amzing people developing rather niche but nice plugins. At some point, plugins will stop to be updated. However, if it is critical to you, you can stll freeze the obsidian version amd work with your notes as you please. But this is not great longterm, I see it as the price to pay for community-developed software. On the other hand, if people using the plugins would donate small amounts, developers could live on their plugins. Maybe this will work at some point.

As I never tried Logseq: is it similar in style with users writing in Markdown syntax and linking files? The infinite scrolling seems to only be for journaling, I would also need to get used to it but it is a nice design aspect (and closer to a physical journal).

I do not qant to “convert” you (back) to Obsidian, but if you only need basic note-taking with linkage, Obsidian seems the perfect fit. Templating and linking are built in and if Obsidian ever stops updating, you still have your .md Files which will work even without Obsidian. But Zim Wiki sounds nice and if it fits your needs, use this. Maybe you can update us when you have found your system in it and others could profit.

Enjoy the thrill of learning new tools and customizing it to your needs! Hope this all works well for you

I am using Obsidian for quite a while now. I really enjoy the possibility to modify anything to my needs. What are your use-cases for Logseq (and Obsidian before)? And how are you liking the switch?