[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…

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…

I’d only point out that this isn’t a binary. It isn’t a choice between dynamic recommendations, and static recommendations. Its a question of what is the right point on the spectrum between very stable, and always-changing. Lots of space between those two extremes for there to be a happy middlegroun…

See we are still talking about something significantly different here. I am saying that just because Proton Pass caught up to 1Password, doesn’t mean we should remove 1Password. In your example with IRC, that is a case of IRC falling behind Signal. IRC falling behind Signal (and therefore being d…

You know what, I think your post has inadvertently changed my mind. We shouldn’t forget that those of us who are active on this forum are probably not very representative of the average user who relies on PrivacyGuides recommendations. There is certainly an implication (intentional or not) that re…

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