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There are plenty of reasonably trustworthy extensions. The logic of "it is a cybersecurity and privacy product, therefore it is the only thing I trust" is kind of terrible. That's if anything a category of products that is full of strange software, see "antivirus" software

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GP very much did not say to trust security and privacy products in general. They said to trust two such products in particular, which are well-established and trusted. There are prominent examples within the past few months of "privacy" extensions embedding trackers and monetizing user data.

No, GP said to only trust these two extensions and no other extensions. While they are entitled to their opinion, IMO that is such ridiculous. There are many many extensions which provide value which don't do shady things.

Many antivirus products are bordering on malware these days.

And all the other software is bordering on spyware.

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