Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by [image] Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN @jonah please do keep this in mind when evaluating Obscura for an official PG recommendation. Thank you. Is @jonah the final say on recommendations? I was under the impression it was a bit more democra…

Well, he is the Privacy Guides director and I wanted him to be aware of it, is all. Just pointing it out to consider this during the official evaluation (whenever and however that may be).

All PRs are reviewed by a committee of Privacy Guides staff members, of which Jonah is included. However, this is mostly done to ensure accuracy of the content written in the PR. Ultimately, every single recommendation we make is up to community consensus. You cannot write a PR without the original…

I would hop in here to give this some nuance, the board does have the power to veto things, its just not that a single person can decide that something gets added or removed on their own, regardless of their position in the organization.

Is all of this made clear elsewhere for what the process is officially like and what happens during and for such evaluations? Perhaps I should search harder but I didn’t find anything that outlines it all.

It is something that we could perhaps improve on. There is currently a lot of grey area. The forum and community really give us a lot of external insights, with the voting system letting us poll how popular something is. While we put a very heavy importance on the community consensus, it is mostly u…

Privacy Guides related question: If you follow the comments from this point onward (mainly the two comments linked below), could you once and for all properly and officially clarify how PG evaluates any product/tool/service for its official recommendation and what the process is like and all that i…

Our guidance for how changes to the website should be approved by team members are outlined in our documentation: [image] Reviewing Pull Requests on GitHub When reviewing content you are acting as the voice of the community, not pushing forward your own agenda. While ultimate approval will come …

[image] jonah: I want to make clear that “consensus” is not “democracy” and ultimately if we don’t think there is consensus in the community on recommending a certain tool Just to clarify, this is true in the reverse as well? What I mean is, there is no difference in how tool removals work, c…

Thank you for clarifying. Isn’t this: [image] jonah: if a majority of people on this forum want it added or it receives many votes. equivalent to: [image] jonah: consensus ? Am I not reading or understanding it right to be confused a little here? How do you think of consensus then?…

Sorry I am currently away but I will leave you with a few past posts I’ve written and then I’ll try to answer more later: [image] How should Privacy Guides take decisions? toolboxSite Development I will re-share my thoughts regarding polling: …and “consensus…

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Sorry I am currently away but I will leave you with a few past posts I’ve written and then I’ll try to answer more later:

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