[image] Skiff Pages/Drive (Productivity Tools) We require both productivity tools and notebooks to be open-source This is interesting requirement considering that you recommend 1Password, a closed source password manager that arguably protects even more sensitive data. So, your stricter requir…

Alright, coming back to this. I still don’t really understand the motivation behind removing well-regarded products solely because of their source code licensing (or lack thereof). Historically we have only removed recommendations when something happens that directly impacts people’s privacy negati…

Let’s do a Poll to help us decide. All votes are PUBLIC to prevent people from faking it with burner accounts. poll

[image] Anon47486929: Instead of asking why open source for any category, the question should always start from the solid base of “Why not”. The reasons can be practicality, too bare bones solutions, etc. but the justification should always be why not open source. We have already justified wh…

We can undo a decision that was made before, but only if new information or a new point of view came to light that we have not taken in before. So far however, I do not really see any arguments mentioned here that were not mentioned before. Edit to add on this: earlier in this thread I was on boar…

[image] jonah: In either case it still doesn’t make sense for either of these camps to delist 1Password for source availability reasons alone, I don’t think. I agree that proprietary software is inherently less privacy-conscious than open-source alternatives. However, I do think we should pri…

[image] anon55464882: In my opinion, Privacy Guides should maintain a consistent approach regarding their recommendation criteria. I am firmly against consistent site-wide criteria across different categories for reasons we are currently discussing in this thread: Should Privacy Guides requir…

Quickly hopping in here, 1password could be removed even without requiring open source, the listing of 1password and the change of the criteria are two seperate discussions.

[image] Anon47486929: So the question can be reframed to: Why not open source now. And this question should keep echoing as tech changes. I don’t really think so, personally. Without an active/direct reason to change a current criteria I think the recommendations should be left as-is. In othe…

There are alternatives to 1Password that are at least as good while being open-source. I can understand that in some cases there is no better choice, but here we have competitive alternatives that are open-source. Favouring open-source apps is already the existing policy . Some people may point out …

[image] jonah: Basically, the way I think about it is: When we add new tools, we need a strong justification on why they are substantially better than the alternatives. When we remove existing tools, we need a strong justification on why they are substantially worse than the alternatives. A…

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I am firmly against consistent site-wide criteria across different categories for reasons we are currently discussing in this thread: Should Privacy Guides require open-source, source-first or source-available as a criteria for all tools? - #4 by jonah

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