https://blog.privacytools.io/the-future-of-privacytools/ PrivacyTools * Main Site * Blog Home * Updates * Guides * Contributing The Future of PrivacyTools Press Release The Future of PrivacyTools * Daniel Gray Daniel Gray Read more posts by this author. Daniel Gray * Jonah Aragon Jonah Aragon I'm the administrator of privacytools.io. I'm researching privacy respecting products and services to share with the world. My posts on this website are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. More posts by Jonah Aragon. Jonah Aragon * Freddy Freddy Freddy is an amateur writer covering privacy, security and open-source development. He's also a team member at PrivacyTools. More posts by Freddy . Freddy * Niek de Wilde Niek de Wilde Read more posts by this author. Niek de Wilde Daniel Gray, Jonah Aragon, Freddy , Niek de Wilde 27 Jul 2021 * 1 min read The Future of PrivacyTools Since 2019, the PrivacyTools project has grown from its humble beginnings as a simple recommendations website. We operate huge online communities that consist of a number of federated platforms full of incredible people sharing advice and discussing online privacy. Our work maintaining PrivacyTools has been extremely difficult of late without access to key assets such as the domain and without the participation of its founder. As a result the team decided to hold a vote for a new name. This name change is the first step in this process of regaining our independence as a community. Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we're confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member. This was not an easy decision to make as we would of course have preferred to stick with PrivacyTools and take the organization to new heights, but without control or ownership over key assets such as the privacytools.io domain, that vision was impossible. Unfortunately with federated services like Mastodon, Matrix and PeerTube we can't simply change the domain name for technical reasons. We plan to run these services on the old domain for a while yet. As the long-term stability of these services is very much in question, we strongly encourage users of chat.privacytools.io, social.privacytools.io, tube.privacytools.io to switch to other providers as soon as possible. It is possible we might bring these services back under our new domain, but that is yet to be determined. Thank you for being with us on this journey, we hope you'll stick around and see what's next. ~ The (formerly) PrivacyTools Team More in Press Release * Introducing our PeerTube Instance 5 Jul 2020 - 5 min read * Relisting Startpage.com 3 May 2020 - 2 min read * Shutting Down Gitea 16 Apr 2020 - 1 min read See all 4 posts - What are security, privacy, and anonymity? Security What are security, privacy, and anonymity? We may think that we know the differences between privacy, security and anonymity, however we often mix them up. People will often criticize a product or service as "not private" * Nate Bartram Nate Bartram Nate Bartram 23 Feb 2021 * 4 min read PrivacyTools (c) 2021 Latest Posts Twitter Ghost