# Remove Strongbox

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-strongbox/19613
**Category:** Tool Suggestions
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** 2024-07-22T11:51:06Z
**Posts:** 39
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## Post 39 by @jonah — 2025-03-14T00:51:25Z

I suspect unfortunately many people still won’t back me up that funding/business models **do** matter and are directly relevant to privacy, as we’ve seen with Skiff, as we’ve seen with Simple Mobile Tools, as we’ve seen with Wire, etc.

Hopefully _someday_ we will be prepared to discuss and acknowledge that non-technical criteria are both needed, and probably _more_ important in many cases than the technical criteria we impose.

Anyways, now that it has actually happened, it seems there’s no choice but to remove Strongbox, because the new company’s track record (with Voice Dream Reader for example) is abysmal. I’ll accept PRs #approved

> [@Strongbox being acquired by Applause](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/strongbox-being-acquired-by-applause/25767):
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> [https://strongboxsafe.com/strongbox-joins-applause/](https://strongboxsafe.com/strongbox-joins-applause/) Beginning of an enshittification or a good thing?

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