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this site seems super sketch in general looking at the original privacy portal. on the github page there's no listed contributers besides themselves with a MIT license, and they only have two things, a mail service thing and a file app with a rather barebones site in general.
just looks weird
edit: also, the description is kinda misleading it's not a "for the masses" type thing it's just for site owners and two rather basic things.
We usually don't trust new services either but here are a few points that might address your concerns:
The privacy-kit library was just announced yesterday. There are no external contributors yet but it's open source and anyone is welcome to help make it better.
βfor the massesβ means that it doesn't require high technical skills and anyone can include it to their website. This is one of our goals: democratizing online privacy.
Our website is simple on purpose. We aim to keep it this way. We build everything from scratch to reduce external dependencies to the strict minimum.
We're also contributors to Lemmy and other select FOSS projects: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4881
We like the skepticism. π Hope the following clarifies things a bit:
npm run build
.Feel free to ask any questions for more clarification. Also the library is tiny it's designed to have zero dependencies and no impact on website performance.