Not sure about Lenovo, but I would never consider an ASUS laptop after they have been found trying to scam people on warranty issues repeatedly.

Current summary of the Gamers Nexus investigation with links to related videos

Replace “an extension” with “a browser” and you can say the exact same thing. At some point you have to trust something and I have seen no evidence that uBlock Origin is doing anything nefarious so far.

No offense intended, you do you and you don’t owe me any explanations, but I always find these types of post hilarious.

I want to do X. I don’t want to use thing that does exactly X and is used by most people trying to do X. Refuses to elaborate.