Comment by ignoramous

I don't doubt PrivacyGuides but...

> There are lengthy discussions about whether to recommend a tool or not on the Privacy Guides GitHub and their forum

The process doesn't strike me as consensus driven? Mods/team have become gatekeepers (both for persisting with existing recommendations or adding new ones), including aggressively shutting down conversations/threads they personally don't like (I was told, all moderation actions are final, regardless of who on the team does it, even if why they did it doesn't hold water). I imagine, such a rigid setup is in response to prevent bad faith actors (but then, I lose count of how many times team/mods have called others "extremist", using it as a slur, just because ... reasons).

It is hard to definitively prove ulterior motive, but other folks do observe such nefariousness and come to their own conclusions, valid or not, as GP has done.

All that to say, the way it is currently run, "discussions happened" isn't really the defence you think it is.