In September 2021, every active contributor unanimously agreed to move from PrivacyTools to work on another site: Privacy Guides. This decision was made because PrivacyTools’ founder and controller of the domain name had disappeared for an extended period of time and could not be contacted.

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Its a 500 word article...

See also the discussion on the Privacy Guides forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-end-of-divest/23396/

We recommend just switching to Brave and disabling the 'crytpo crap' yourself rather than using a fork that is liable to go unmaintained and miss updates.

Did you watch the video?

We're really not trying to mine data lol

Not quite... The video covers this, as does our overview:

Using a VPN in cases where you're using your real-life or well-known identity online is unlikely to be useful. Doing so may trigger spam and fraud detection systems, such as if you were to log into your bank's website.

You could read our Tor overview or @[email protected]'s post on our forum (which you should totally join)

Please watch the video and read our overview page here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/advanced/tor-overview/

Thanks for the kind words!

Always makes my day to read these kind of posts - glad we can help and thanks for using the site!

This was publically announced in July: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/07/22/privacy-guides-partners-with-magic-grants-501-c-3/

From the first two paragraphs of the article:

Silicon Valley could well be built on the principle of scrapping principles. Now Elon Musk, perhaps the ultimate tech bro, is shredding another well-regarded convention with an original business strategy.

Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire is doing the opposite. The cyber-trucker is trying his best to cull his customer base. Instead of finding gaps in the market, Musk is helping to create them.