It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
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    11 hours ago

    If you reach 20 companies that aren’t ad-centric for-profit companies you can qualify for the false equivalency pro-league.

    It’s up there with mental gymnastics in the bad-faith Olympics, a lofty achievement.

    well. i’ll give you ad-guard , canonical is also making great strides towards ad-centric so that one too.