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It seems there aren't any exact replacements, but this probably lists service providers to consider: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/
privacytools is dogshit now, the original owner made it into a promotional VPN shill website and every single contributor, admin, mod, etc from the former privacytools now is under privacyguides
False.
No they absolutely do not, stop being a shill
From https://www.privacytools.io/donate
Clearly false when the VPN page lists NordVPN as the best pick, followed by Surfshark and an and for Incogni at the bottom of the page.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
From https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/
the pt people voluntarily and unanimously moved to pg
Suuuuuure cuz You said so
I linked many sources, where are yours? There's no lies here, Burung was absent from github, the reddit and all the chats for multiple years and now wants them back to delete all the evidence.
Like NordVPN and Surfshark? The same thing PrivacyTools itself warned about promoting in their blog that's now deleted?
privacytools.io is full of affiliate links and PG has shit tech bro recommendations like Brave browser
they didn't.
absolutely yes, the owner is an asshole and the website is shit
what the fuck? Google has a clean website, doesn't mean I should be using it. The usefulness of the information is what matters, and privacytools ranking ads as "best picks" sure as hell isn't informative
same as above. Doesn't matter if they have a better license when everything else is a scam
From https://www.privacytools.io/donate
Clearly false when the VPN page lists NordVPN as the best pick, followed by Surfshark and an and for Incogni at the bottom of the page.
πliesπ
can you stop linking that one video which uses "trust me bro" and the privacytools website itself as sources and link some actual verifiable stuff?
what did they steal?
That's called forking an open source project, not to even mention that everyone who wrote the stuff is now on PG
the staff unanimously decided to move
Lies and lies from burung
I'm never gonna recommend librewolf/mullvad browser/whatever is popular these days to a coworker, even if I daily drive them. Do you know what I did suggest to them, and they actually switched to it from chrome? Brave.
It's not the best, it's not the most powerful, but being able to say "it's chrome but without ads" is a major selling point, especially with non tech savy people who don't want their cookies cleared on every restart
Nowadays I would recommend Zen Browser + uBO over Brave which has a nice user-friendly UI and supposedly disables telemetry. Before Zen Browser, disabling the crap Brave comes with takes a similar amount of effort as tweaking Librewolf's aggressive privacy settings, but one of them is actually privacy focused and the other is run by a shady ad crypto company with a shady news feed that keeps pushing Fox News and a homophobic CEO. For mobile there's Cromite.
Brave is also run by a fascist supporter.