I know it was a great attempt at humour on my part.
From an ethical standoint any earnst attempt at upholding privacy is equally valid. Past the technical necessity, you should probably look at those tools from any ulterior motives standpoint, or path toward a potential future monetization.
On this front, Telegram is clearly shit, Signal is centralized and nothing prevent it from turning "evil" and starting to charge money.
Ideally you'd need complete open sourceness to start getting your feet into ethics, possibly also some political statement beyond some bland "free speech" stance.
Sounds like a javascript issue. Privacy Badger has been pointless for a while btw, it's superseeded by uBlock.