Introducing SoftwareCompare: Objective data to find software that fits your needs!

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Hello Privacyguides community, I’m proud to announce a project I have working on for a while, called Software Compare.

You can visit it at: https://softwarecompare.org

What is Software Compare?

*A website for finding objective data of software applications
*Compares different categories of applications, with the four current categories being Browsers, Music Streaming Services, Search Engines and Youtube Frontends
*Open source under the AGPLv3: GitHub - SoftwareCompare/SoftwareCompare: Quickly compare features of different software
*Continuous work in progress, so feel free to open a pull request or a Github issue!

Features
*Many checkmarks have links to verify the source where the information originated
*No tracking
*Minimal Javascript: Used for tooltips and the mobile dropdown menu, but otherwise, the site works works completely without it

Feel free to let me know what you think so I can continue to improve this project!

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Wrong place. It should be “Hello Privacy Guides Dignitaries and Intellectuals” :laughing:

Additionally, the browsers comparison is too sparse. https://eylenburg.github.io/ is much more extensive.

The music and frontend comparison feel out of place. Though I do feel there is a need for objective comparison of frontends for all services so maybe add that.

One of the categories in YouTube frontends is allowing Odysee usage, but it should be “supports other services” with list of other services the frontends support (This is because a YouTube frontend supporting Odysee should not be a plus point, unless you are pointing out it can support other services overall and not just Odysee).

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Are you doing your own comparisons or just aggregating from other sites like PrivacyTests.org?

If you are doing your own comparisons I would suggest adding some sort of methodology section to the site.

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PrivacyTests.org does perform its own tests and does not aggregate from elsewhere.

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Yes. I think you misunderstood my response (tried to edit my response to be more clear). I was asking if OP was aggregating from sites like privacytests.

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I will add new features, applications and categories moving forward!

That feature refers to a button that Piped has that allows user to watch the video on Odysee instead of Piped if it’s available on Odysee, If there’s a way to make this more clear, let me know!

This site is a collection of my own comparisons

What would you recommend I put there that’s not already in the about section?

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stuff like do you just check the software documentation for the info or is there other methods involved? do you verify the info in anyway? do you re-check the info and update the charts? if so, how often?

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Thanks for the reply, I’ll add it to the about section. but I’ll answer your questions here too

I use the application to make sure the feature is implemented, then I look for an official source (preferably from the project) to add as a link under the checkmarks

I’m planning on checking myself, but any recommendations for changes on Twitter, Discord or Github will be listened to

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Hey thanks for posting!

Please check out the pinned post in Project Showcase so that we can have this thread re-listed.

edit: relisted, thank you!

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