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Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software)

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A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Lemmy isn't listed as a Reddit alternative. I wonder why that is.

They are also recommending PrivacyTools.io, which had a nasty takeover and started selling ad space. Privacy Guides is the better site.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

PrivacyTools.io, which had a nasty takeover and started selling ad space.

Didn’t know that. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Some gentle pressure applied here might change that https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/255

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

privacytools.io always was shit show even before the infighting. They put their own endorsement site on Cloudflare. Despite a collossal pile of dirt emerging on #Signal:

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/779

PTIO continued endorsing Signal non-stop, refusing to disclose the issues. That was also before the breakup. Dirt was routinely exposed on PTIO endorsements and it never changed their endorsement nor did they reveal the findings on their website.

Now both factions are hypocrits just as they were when they were united. The original PTIO site is back to being Cloudflared (nothing like tossing people coming to you for privacy advice into the walled garden of one of the most harmful privacy offenders), and Privacy Guides has setup on a CF’d Lemmy node. The hypocrisy has no end with these people.