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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, I just moved on there.

Is something happening?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

PrivacyTools should be taken with a grain of salt these days. There was apparently a massive falling out.

Long story short the main guy went MIA and the rest of the crew and community decided over many months to create a new site since the main guy had the keys to the kingdom. Shortly after the move the guy came back and accused everyone of being against him. It's a whole drama thing. But the fact that PrivacyTools now highly recommends NordVPN and ExpressVPN tells me all I need to know and I'm sticking with the new PrivacyGuides

www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were acquired by some VPN megacorp and AFAIK, all their credible postings and court stuff happened prior to that, so their credibility is unknown today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually switched away from Firefox to Vivaldi a few months ago mainly for 2 reasons.

  1. Firefox's profiles are dogshit. They are almost a hidden feature and are very cumbersome to use.

  2. The Android browser support for certain types of extensions is dodgy. Using uBlock Origin delays the loading of all webpages by a few seconds for some reason. There is a Github issue about this that has been open for a few years now.

I want the browser I use to be on both Android and desktop. Vivaldi has been OK so far.

I do miss a lot of the good stuff from Firefox, especially their address bar. For some reason I find it much better than anything on Chromium based browsers. Firefox's is much snappier and is correct with it's suggestions the majority of the time.

I also like Firefox's sync between devices to be much better.

When those 2 issues are resolved I will come back, but as it stands now it's a hassle for my needs.