I’ve often shared Privacy Guides around to lots of people but found that it is lacking something I believe to be crucial, that being the reasoning behind why people should switch from what they currently use to what PG recommends. For example when looking through the recommended mobile operating sys…

This discussion is usually in our discussion forum, or on Github. We don’t litter the site with every anti-recommendation, otherwise the whole site would become just that, and it would be painful to maintain as there are a lot of things, the team purposely does not use. [image] Cartridge2508: i…

anon39045309 December 3, 2022, 12:38am 3

I somewhat agree with @Cartridge2508. Ultimately, this comes down to PG’s target audience, which is still unclear.

I’ve also noticed that PG is highly dynamic; A Lot of stuff changes for a site that intend to be read only once or twice.

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Privacy Guides should cover the reasoning behind why you should switch from X to Z