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by windexh8er 1071 days ago
Exactly this. The fact that the parent to your comment has spammed this answer a few times should indicate that there's a difference of opinion here.

This seems to be another platform trying to capitalize on the marketing gimmick of "privacy". It's become a very overloaded term. Apple's definition of privacy, is different from Google's, is different from Facebook's, is different from GrapheneOS', is different from...

It would be great if there was a privacy template that was recognized by a few, notable and trustworthy organizations. And that template would force the powers that be behind all of these "privacy oriented" sites and/or apps to be scrutinized in the same way, by a standard which would limit the definition gymnastics, at least a little. And that way said founders don't get to show up to forums and say "Well... By privacy we mean we're collecting all this information. And we have an open ended promise that's not protected in any way, shape or form - so while this is what we're telling you today, that may immediately go out the window when we're offered an undisclosed amount to sell all of the telemetry we weren't using to reverse engineer who you actually are".