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  • Privacytools.io actively promotes VPN services that advertise heavilly on YouTube, and have no good track record, like NordVPN (which is at the top of their list of VPNs), which leads me to believe that they are paid by NordVPN to promote their service.

    Mullvad (the most trustworthy VPN IMO in terms of track record) is at the bottom of their list.

    At the top of their main website, they also have Incogni as a recommendation with what looks to be a referral link. They also have a referral link for Startmail, Internxt (whatever that is), and probably others as well.

    On their front page: “Sponsors can be exempted from the criteria.”

    Anyone trying to recommend privacy services who also accept sponsorships are not trustworthy.

    Also, on their crypto page, they recommend both AgoraDesk and LocalMonero, both of which shut down last year, which leads me to believe that some of their information is also out of date.

    When I look at PrivacyGuides, I see none of these issues, so I recommend PrivacyGuides over ptio. In fact, on their VPN page, not only do they recommend relatively trustworthy VPNs, but they also have a big red warning about VPN usage and what to expect in terms of privacy that ptio does not have.















  • The system is the problem here, because it incentivizes these kinds of corporations to do these things.

    So by the very nature of capitalism, all corporations.

    When you have a boss “ruling over” a worker, that is just barely different than living as a serf. The difference here is you can choose your boss, but inherent in the system is that workers don’t earn the full value of their work (surplus value), otherwise it wouldn’t be worth it for the owner class to hire anyone.

    Worker-owned cooperatives are pretty cool, though. Would be nice if all corporations were forced to be worker-owned.