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privacytools.io is full of affiliate links and PG has shit tech bro recommendations like Brave browser
Boy I guess PT is not allowed to make money to fund their website It's way better than leaching from PT & TechLore fans
PrivacyTools has the better more updated content, are you against PT making money ? It's way better than PG stealing funds from PT
they didn't.
absolutely yes, the owner is an asshole and the website is shit
Not a good reason, techlore fanboy The website is pretty decent & clean & they have a better licencing
You drank the TechLore kool-aid Mistef
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
What ads & what scam ? Disroot ? Picocrypt ?
PG's Jonah Aragon steal PT's creator's funds & his subreddit & censors anyone who mentions it They shill for apple & attack other more reputable privacy youtubers But I guess PT is bad, because you said soπ
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?
Vs PG being actual thieves & liars ? Ok
what did they steal?
Money & subreddit & along with the staff & content (it's literally copy paste)
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.