Hello @jonah. Thank you for your reply.

I will be using a VPN so hiding network activity isn’t a very large concern.

I am mainly speaking of, as you say, border crossings and police stops. I now know it is easily detected, but I wonder if anyone knows how scrutinized it is specifically in Russia.

@jonah how should people think of this app in terms of its development cycle? I see the first official release is v26.6.6. Does this mean it is not a beta version even though its database is labeled ‘Work in progress — not for production use’

Thanks for pinging me @jonah

@Expert4870 out of curiosity, are you importing data.yml directly into the app? The Privacy Guides database is already included as part of the internal database, so there shouldn’t be a need to import it manually.

That being said, the import issue with |- is a real bug — the parser doesn’t handle fingerprints that use this YAML block scalar format. I’ve…

@jonah In the source names section of the readme the link to AppVerifiers own internal database goes to a fork and not the real repo.

@jonah Thank you.

I know they are both ‘not production ready,’ but I’m really enjoying the PG database with this AppVerifier fork. I see the first release of the database is immutable, as @ignoramous suggested. Great job getting the ball rolling, @jonah

I am not trying to blame you for not finding it . I just had deja vu reading this because I had commented on the other thread so I knew it existed.

I also wasn’t sure if you are asking for the same thing. As the thread I am linking just wants to remove it as a minimum criteria. You may want it removed completley.

EDIT: I would also point specifically to @jonah reply in the abolish…

Just finished watching @henry-fisher’s interview and it was equally compelling as PG’s.
Below are some the main takeaways I have from this interview:

WE NEED MORE PRIVACY ADVOCATES

There is way too much ground for any one person to cover.

This is something that I can appreciate, even though I still admittedly wonder why certain privacy organizations or advocates, don’t cover certain…

There’s privacyguides.org and privacyguides.net, I’m wondering why not just have one domain. There was an announcement about it 4 years ago: Upcoming forum domain name change, but @jonah didn’t give a comprehensive answer.

You, might be able to get a response from the secureblue dev here if you ping them once, and again be respectful.

Though I don’t know if the secureblue dev has be active on this forum recently. There are also other contact methods for the secureblue developer on the website namely Bluesky and Discord.

Also this might not be relevant to you, but I figured I might as well link it. In the…

When was PrivacyPass implemented? More recently than the May2024 commit?

At a surface level, this does seem to mitigate the concern, but I am admittedly unfamiliar with PrivacyPass & have not done a forensic audit

It looks like @redoomed1 made the edit, with @jonah specifically requesting the language:

Jonah: I’m okay with changing it, if we note that using Brave Search Premium with an…

@ph00lt0 @jonah Have you had a chance to look into it?

@jonah @Valynor what is the update on this?

seize:

then there has been no communication from the Privacy Guides team, or forum moderators around what came out of this topic in regards to the Privacy Guides team and forum moderators

This is pretty typical as @win11.shading291 noted it takes a while… and as @jonah has said he will not put any sort of SLA on answering matters, so don’t expect an improvement on this.

win11.shading291:

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@jonah have you had a chance to look at this? Cheers!

@jonah

https://stats.triplebit.net/share/S80jBc50hxr5TquS/www.privacyguides.org in Traffic Statistics - Privacy Guides

I am working on figuring that out with some friends. Also, @jonah was tinkering with this stuff a bit ago.

Firefox doesn’t share browser history

“To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors”

List of data they share with partners:

Technical data

Location

Language preference

Settings data

Unique identifiers

System performance data

Interaction data

Search data

Browsing data

Wished people actually…

jonah:

I also still need to look into whether IVPN uses includeAllNetworks on iOS. Knowing what other major companies are doing should probably inform this decision, because if they also think the iOS-provided killswitch is utterly useless then I might not agree with making it a requirement. This is why I clarified only specific OSes until we figure out what the final version should look…

jonah:

I also still need to look into whether IVPN uses includeAllNetworks on iOS. Knowing what other major companies are doing should probably inform this decision, because if they also think the iOS-provided killswitch is utterly useless then I might not agree with making it a requirement. This is why I clarified only specific OSes until we figure out what the final version should look…

jonah:

I also still need to look into whether IVPN uses includeAllNetworks on iOS. Knowing what other major companies are doing should probably inform this decision, because if they also think the iOS-provided killswitch is utterly useless then I might not agree with making it a requirement. This is why I clarified only specific OSes until we figure out what the final version should look…

Proton_Team:

There are some mitigations against this in place - users are warned before switching servers that their VPN connection may be briefly interrupted

Where are they warned about this? @jonah made a video demonstrating the issue and I don’t see this warning anywhere. I have also been unable to find any documentation stating that the user’s IP would not be protected during server…

@jonah Interesting video with useful information. I experienced similar issues with Proton VPN on Linux (the app itself worked fine, but I encountered network problems, particularly when the Advanced Kill Switch was enabled). Connection speeds sometimes dropped significantly, requiring me to disable the kill switch, switch servers, or restart the application to restore functionality. This issue…

I’ve read the entirety of all 5 threads related to removing Proton VPN and I’d like to validate my understanding as the issue seem technical.

First, from reading the threads, I believe the below is what most agrees on:

Overall-Bet3743:

What should you require of VPN providers on macOS?
My answer: The same minimum standard that you should apply to all other OSs.

**What should the…

For me the biggest issue I had was the lack of response.

I know @jonah made it very clear there is no SLA but when you have a team member in @nateb saying we will internally discuss and get back to everyone and then there is silence for 7+ weeks that doesn’t come off right. i think its reasonable to expect some sort of an update within a couple of weeks. Even if its just “hey we didn’t forget,…

I’m marking as the solution because you are the final say but I think you are misunderstanding my concern…or I am just mistaken.

jonah:

For evidence of clear community consensus, see:

• Remove IVPN - #2 by flowrpowr
• Remove IVPN - #4 by anon69871701
• Remove IVPN - #5 by anon1333233
• Remove IVPN - #9 by ignoramous
• Remove IVPN - #16 by Libre_Software_Enjoyer
• oh,…

Remove ProtonVPN

we are not providing you with an SLA that demands we submit PRs within 24 hours

What an odd strawman.

To be clear, my issues are not so much with the time it took as the attitude of staff toward it. Like…

Ignoring requests for an updated for weeks

Remove ProtonVPN

is @jonah or @staff going to respond to any of these VPN posts that came out during the holidays? It…

I think the delayed response feature is great. I support the idea that deletion should only happen in extreme cases.

About ‘go blog somewhere else’:

privacy.slouchy:

jonah:

If you or one of the 10 people who reacted to your post can elaborate further, that’d be great

This wouldn’t have moved the needle if it came from some normal dude. Odd to see the forum admin publicly…

pine:

I could see the merit of moving it out of this thread

LibreWolf (Firefox-Based Browser) Tool Suggestions

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/lost-topics/35995/5 With regard to the linked post, what would be the approach for this thread since it was rejected years ago? Does the discussion continue here, or would a new thread be the recommended approach? @jonah

Maybe once this gets…

kissu:

Concerning point tho is the fact that @jonah reacted by proposing OP to just create a blog to avoid such issues in the future.
I do not disagree with people hosting their own blog/socials , yet it looks like a weird thing to say to somebody on a forum.

I read the thread you shared as a PDF when it was on the forum and was pretty shocked by this reply from Jonah. “Just create a blog”…