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I asked some friends who know a lot about this situation about this and apparently this is fake news.
Direct quote of what they send me:
He didn't try to take over anything. The team behind PrivacyTools.io could not get in contact anymore with the domain owner and they haven't seen him for a long time and had some conflicts with him before that too. So the team decided to move on to a new name, they got the domain PrivacyGuides.org and were migrating everything for weeks. Then, in the end, when everything was already migrated and redirected, the PrivacyTools.io owner came back a while later and was extremely angry that the team had moved away from his infrastructure.
Jonah is hosting the new servers and had already been hosting stuff for PTIO before. The PTIO guy is still incredibly salty and made a new website with a long article about how Jonah is plotting to take over everything.
This new website also contains many bad recommendations that are sponsored and he now makes money from. I would consider PTIO very untrustworthy at this point. The entire original team behind it moved on as well...
I'm not saying you're wrong - I don't know the truth. But your source is literally: "Trust me, bro."
They gave independently verifiable information that you can check for yourself:
Those should all be something you could check for yourself. If you're already interested in privacy tools, you should be able to verify as least some of that yourself.
That's fair to say. My source is someone who was indirectly involved with some of it, and an admin/moderator I trust of another privacy/security group. And like @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works said, some of these things you can verify for yourself.
In cases like this it's often hard to find the truth, and there's always an amount of he said, she said; all I can say is that I personally trust these people, fwiw.