[HN Gopher] Privacyguides.org - The guide to restoring your onli...
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       Privacyguides.org - The guide to restoring your online privacy
        
       Author : doodlesdev
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2023-05-01 20:00 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.privacyguides.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.privacyguides.org)
        
       | privacyking wrote:
       | The privacyguides team killed a 200k subreddit for privacy
       | (privacytoolsio) out of spite. I'll never forget that. Their
       | replacement subreddit has yet to reach anywhere near the same
       | number of people (50k) or activity.
        
         | coronasaurus wrote:
         | QRD?
        
       | Quot wrote:
       | I thought this was a rebranding of PrivacyTools, but it's a fork
       | by some of the former members.
       | 
       | https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/
        
         | McAtNite wrote:
         | Thanks for this link, I was actually chatting with someone
         | today about good VPN providers and went to privacy tools. I was
         | very confused why the top recommended VPN was Nord with an
         | affiliate link.
         | 
         | Your link cleared up my confusion. It's a shame that the
         | project had to be forked.
        
           | grapesurgeon wrote:
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         | barbariangrunge wrote:
         | > 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.
         | 
         | > After the organizational move was completed, the founder of
         | PrivacyTools returned and began to spread misinformation about
         | the Privacy Guides project. They continue to spread
         | misinformation in addition to operating a paid link farm on the
         | PrivacyTools domain. We are creating this page to clear up any
         | misconceptions.
         | 
         | paid link farm?
        
         | ementally wrote:
         | https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/
        
       | dawidpotocki wrote:
       | Previous member of PrivacyTools (before the split) here.
       | 
       | I have personally found it sad that they relicensed from CC0 for
       | both content and code to CC-BY-ND 4.0 for content and MIT for
       | code. I don't mind MIT, but CC-BY-ND? How am I supposed to
       | contribute to a NoDerivatives project?
       | 
       | > I agree to grant Privacy Guides a perpetual, worldwide, non-
       | exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable license with
       | the right to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of
       | sublicensees, to reproduce, modify, display, perform, relicense,
       | and distribute my contribution as part of this project.
       | 
       | Also when contributing, you have to agree to relicensing by them.
       | 
       | I wouldn't have contributed if that was a case back then.
        
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