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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Privacy focused review sites? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello!

Are there more sites like https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/ that would do privacy focused reviews? Maybe there are some more crowd based?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

privacyguides.org
~~privacytools.io~~ not this one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One of these things is not like the other...

>[PrivacyTools.io] appears to be a heavily SEO-optimized version of the site which recommends tools in exchange for financial compensation. Very recently, IVPN and Mullvad, two VPN providers near-universally recommended by the privacy community and notable for their stance against affiliate programs were removed from PrivacyTools. In their place? NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and hide.me; Giant VPN corporations with untrustworthy platforms and business practices, notorious for their aggressive marketing and affiliate programs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew that PTio had some kind of controversy, but was not aware it was that bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a little more to the story. Same guy owns other scammy shopping sites, made some accusations, did some trolling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! While this is great resource for software, I still would like to see something similar but for physical devices like phones, TVs, cars, toasters and anything IoT.