# Separate decisions and reactions

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/separate-decisions-and-reactions/15021
**Category:** Site Development
**Created:** 2023-11-14T20:44:06Z
**Posts:** 5
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## Post 4 by @jonah — 2023-11-15T05:57:19Z

I’m wondering what benefit that would provide. You can already figure out which recommendations require a purchase just… _logically_.

So… the purpose of drawing a distinction seems to be just to denote the recommendations which require hardware purchases as less important (or vice versa maybe?), is that right?

I’m not sure we want to delineate between these recommendations though. My thinking is that presenting these all together lets people make more informed decisions. For example, if someone read our “reactions” page on securing your stock Android phone and never read our “decisions” page on getting a secure Android phone (because they already have a phone), then they’ll be missing out on all that education which might guide their future purchases.

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Alternatively, maybe the point of creating a “reactions” section is to add more “reaction” type content in general, but I also don’t want to get too far into the “fixing the things you already use” types of recommendations for reasons like this:

> [@Configuring privacy settings in mainstream applications (e.g. WhatsApp)](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/configuring-privacy-settings-in-mainstream-applications-e-g-whatsapp/14969/3):
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> I would consider this to be out of scope for the site, personally. At this point I simply do not see the value in educating people on how to use non-private services like WhatsApp “privately,” when such a task is in fact not truly possible. I consider placing trust in [supposed](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/if-you-could-only-choose-between-sms-and-whatsapp-what-would-you-choose-and-why/14905/3) security layers like WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption actively harmful in the sense that it creates a false sense of security for its users (as evidenced by the number of people who recommend WhatsApp over alternative mess…

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