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The Future of PrivacyTools

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Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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Post by teddyh »

> Please don't discuss your name suggestions or votes in community channels. To avoid exhausting bikeshedding and ensure a fair result, we want to make this a blind vote. While we obviously can't stop you from discussing it outside of PrivacyTools's rooms, we trust that you'll do your part in making all of this a smooth process!

— https://aragon.cloud/apps/forms/cMPxG9KyopapBbcw

Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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Post by freddyym »

kashura wrote: post #3

What happened to the founder and their involvement?

We haven't had proper contact with him for a while. And even when he was "available", it was so intermittent that he may as well have been absent. (I've been in the team for a year and they have logged on to our Matrix chat about three times). This affected fundamental tasks like updating the site and having our servers for our services work.

Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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Post by apecat »

counternotions wrote: post #4

Weird they are taking this so seriously. I thought this was just another one of those spam VPN review sites?

No, I find them to be a lot more ambitious than that. Worth browsing around the site, and you'll see it's not spammy at all.

If you run a serious web project, ownership of domain names is critical asset management, especially if you care for privacy. If the current domain was to get hijacked by someone's commercial ambitions, the site would probably be reworked towards the kind of BS VPN blabbering you described.

I don't agree with all of PrivacyTools' angles and priorities, making a lot of their advice pretty impractical for most people. But the purist approach is also interesting to follow, even if one doesn't jump on the bandwagon.

Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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Post by freddyym »

counternotions wrote: post #4

Weird they are taking this so seriously. I thought this was just another one of those spam VPN review sites?

I'm sorry you think that we are just one of 'those spam VPN review sites'. As a team member, I can assure you that we hate them just as much as you. [1]

VPNs used to play a large role in the site (they no longer do), but we've never accepted any affiliate requests. (We do however operate a sponsorship programe which we are working on making a criteria for). [2,3] We have a strict criteria for the few VPNs we do list on our site. [4] We strive to educate users on the purpose of VPNs [5], and try not to recommend when there are other options.

[1] https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privac... [2]https://www.privacytools.io/sponsors/ [3]https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/2134 [4] https://privacytools.io/providers/vpn/#criteria [5] https://blog.privacytools.io/understanding-vpns/

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