Happy to see everyone sharing what they chose. As good a time as any to also donate to the projects you nominated if you can! Push your employer to match the donation too if they have matching programs.
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Nominated DivestOS.
Looks nice! (:
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Iāve nominated DivestOS, whose āGO BIG OR GO HOMEā approach to ad-blocking has left me questioning how I use uBlock Origin. āENABLE THEM ALL,ā SkewedZeppelin saidāthat line especially haunts my dreams.
In all seriousness, I really appreciate the work Tavi has been doing, and hope that DivestOS doesnāt vanish akin to others in the past.
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I nominated Ladybird. I donāt like where the new CEO of Mozilla is taking Firefox and there needs to be an alternative to Chromium.
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Privacy Guides 
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I nominated Quad9 this time. I believe I did GrapheneOS the last two times. I wanted to pick a different organisation that does a lot of work for thousands or millions of people around the world, and whose users probably donāt even know they are using them. Looking at their map of locations, they have a lot of coverage in Africa compared to NextDNS (three locations) and Control D (one location). I also want them to beat Sony again. No doubt Sony is going against them because they are a non-profit and donāt have the budget to fight legal battles. They wouldnāt attempt this against Cloudflare or Google.
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I nomitated Cwtch, I think they tackle genuine privacy limitations with our current messaging options in a way that is toughtful, and also they seem to need monetary help more than simplex
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I nominated VeraCrypt, thanks to this :
https://www.reddit.com/r/VeraCrypt/comments/1gl7wgx/urgent_lets_nominate_veracrypt_for_the_proton/
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would it make sense to nominate coreboot?
I feel like open-source firmware needs more funding for it to happen more often on modern day hardware (beyond just system76 and the MSI PRO Z790-P)
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Sure it does. Nothing lost if it doesnāt get it, gets significant funding if it does 
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Although coreboot is far from my liking right now. Also the issue with them is more vendor support and less lack of money as I understand.
any particular reason as to why that is?
In my opinion, there is very low chance of coreboot winning, so your vote will probably go to waste. Itās like voting for a president that almost has no chance of being elected, but thatās just my opinion.
In a system where you can vote/nominate multiple times and there are many good candidates thatās barely an issue, but yeah smaller projects have a lesser chance to get selected.
Its nomination not voting. Any project Proton deems fit will receive the grant, even if just 1 person suggests it. Of course, more nominations mean more chances they will review it. Just go for it
Ease of use. It needs to have its āSignalā moment (where a tool becomes very simple to use and easy to switch to, while also competing with non private/insecure tools in feature parity). But of course its firmware, so I know the difficulties. No issue with the amazing project
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This raises an interesting question: How transparent is Proton about the how it chooses who it chooses? From what Iāve seen, the privacy community here and elsewhere is very invested in this and seems to be spending quite a bit of energy on nominations.
Also, given that participation requires no PII, Iām really curious how they deal with abuse, if nothing else.
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This is probably why the community nominates projects and doesnāt directly vote for the winner(s). Proton even encourages voting twice to nominate multiple projects, so they seem to understand that vote quantity alone is not worth much.
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Wow, I hadnāt even considered that angle, and now I feel a bit silly for missing it. PrivacyGuides has always been at the forefront of evolving, unbiased privacy resources, and your teamās quick uptake on new tools is consistently impressive. Back when I was doing alpha and beta testing for SimpleX, I was genuinely surprised by how quickly you recognized its advantages right after release.
Iām submitting a nomination for your team!
@Redroyach, I recently had some of our team try out Cwtch, and weāre thoroughly impressed with its performance so far.
@IksNorTen, Iād really like to support VeraCrypt, but I feel itās falling behind, especially when you consider the challenges of plausible deniability in common law jurisdictions. Shufflecake, on the other hand, is setting a new standard, being completely transparent about its capabilities. Check out the talk Shufflecake gave at DEFCON Switzerland its definitely worth a watch. I think that Mr. Idrassi is a wonderful human being for keeping TrueCrypt alive through VeraCrypt as a single maintainer though.
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Shufflecake looks neat
I think Proton just uses the form to crowdsource a complete list of organizations to ensure theyāre at least aware of everything out there, and then they ultimately choose 10 (non-transparently) based on whatever they feel like.[1]
Iāve never understood Protonās annual fundraiser to mean a āthe community directly decides where the money is goingā popularity contest.
Maybe Iām wrong and I shouldāve been making a bigger push for everyone in our community to nominate Privacy Guides all these years. If we donāt get picked this year maybe Iāll try that next year and test out this popularity theory 
Which to be fair is kind of what I use this forum for when writing PRs for privacyguides.org, so I get it
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