Its because Burung Hantu (Marco Wollank) always wanted to use it to make money, whereas we just get what we get from OpenCollective, and none of the team withdraws out of that.
For us it's a labor of love, for the topic at hand, for him it's about the money. His blog post should tell you exactly that.
Privacy Guides is the only site you need out of the two. Privacy Tools is run by an SEO farmer, Marco Wollank (Burung Hantu), who has no useful information or ability whatsoever other than parrot he thinks will get him the clicks/followers. Some time ago, someone linked this "exposé" about his history, in our Matrix rooms and it makes complete sense.
It is something I suspected for a long time, as it was his first complaint "MY SEO".
Keep in mind posteo.net does not have DMARC which means anyone can spoof an email @posteo domain.
All of the other providers have this. Mailing lists can be used with DMARC.
Previously though they had some pretty irresponsible marketing.
Likely they haven't undergone any audits and they certainly aren't the worst out there. AzireVPN is another one that I am keeping an eye on.
I pretty much just buy on an exchange with KYC, then shift to another exchange that has XMR and transfer out to my own hardware wallet. One of the mods in #monero:monero.social mentioned https://kycnot.me which is also a useful site.
It seems to be the only platform which constantly improves, noticeably each year. While some of the others do, it's often not so noticeable.
While SimpleX is good for small groups, unfortunately it doesn't really have desktop apps yet.
100% this, and it's why I still used old.reddit.com, because the new reddit site is just awful.
What I will say is there is less "noise" on our lemmy/discussion forums, and distinctly higher quality posts. This is something we'd like to encourage long term, particularly when people ask questions already answered quite clearly on our website.
git-send-email to one of the team members if you need to really do that. Ideally, just use a VPN or Tor anyway, because you're probably going to need that anyway. Github is available in Iran nowadays https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/A lot of these are unnecessary or actually modify your fingerprint.
- privacy badger
Can be detected https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/
- clearurls
Unnecessary, as uBO has removeparam
- decentraleyes
Modifies your fingerprint making you more unique.
For more information about what not to use see https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
Yeah, I almost wasn't going to link it because of that, however, it is fairly tame compared to most of the garbage on there.
The info about One Guy Ltd and it's links to his previous company Viral Video Web Ltd was interesting though and the fact he's set up a bullshit "review" website (Erfahrungen) is amusing.