Privacy focused review sites? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Charliebeans@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello!

Are there more sites like https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/ that would do privacy focused reviews? Maybe there are some more crowd based?

Thanks!

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[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

privacyguides.org
~~privacytools.io~~ not this one

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One of these things is not like the other...

>[PrivacyTools.io] appears to be a heavily SEO-optimized version of the site which recommends tools in exchange for financial compensation. Very recently, IVPN and Mullvad, two VPN providers near-universally recommended by the privacy community and notable for their stance against affiliate programs were removed from PrivacyTools. In their place? NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and hide.me; Giant VPN corporations with untrustworthy platforms and business practices, notorious for their aggressive marketing and affiliate programs.

[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

I knew that PTio had some kind of controversy, but was not aware it was that bad.

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

There is a little more to the story. Same guy owns other scammy shopping sites, made some accusations, did some trolling.

[-] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing! While this is great resource for software, I still would like to see something similar but for physical devices like phones, TVs, cars, toasters and anything IoT.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not exactly what you're looking for but https://tosdr.org is a good resource

[-] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Looks great, thanks for sharing! Added to the list

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This link works instead of the one OP sent, seems like a server issue from Mozilla right now?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/

[-] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for this link, updated link in post!

[-] ripe_banana@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The site seems to be down

So, for everyone that doesn't know, in mozilla's own words:

About *Privacy Not Included: *Privacy Not Included is a buyers guide focused on privacy rather than price or performance. Launched in 2017, the guide has reviewed hundreds of products and apps. It arms shoppers with the information they need to protect the privacy of their friends and family, while also spurring the tech industry to do more to safeguard consumers.

(Btw I love rss readers that cache stuff)

[-] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, seems like site is having some issues, I've updated link in OP.

[-] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

In my case I’m using Miniflux RSS reader on Docker on a Raspberry Pi4. It has option to download content of articles. It’s really lightweight.

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Not sure what that means and that site appears to be down

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Huh, throws a server error 500 indeed.

Cool resource though, they basically list all kinds of products, both digital services and hardware appliances, sorting them after how well they deal with user privacy.

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

lib.reviews is a FOSS site for reviewing just about anything.

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I used to hink RestorePrivacy was good, but they're shilling NordVPN and these other 'famous' VPNs too, also with affiliate links, so no longer trust them. Also from what I've read previously their authours dont seemt to take critique very well..

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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