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  • Inf_V@kbin.earth
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    1 day ago

    this site seems super sketch in general looking at the original privacy portal. on the github page there’s no listed contributers besides themselves with a MIT license, and they only have two things, a mail service thing and a file app with a rather barebones site in general.

    just looks weird

    edit: also, the description is kinda misleading it’s not a “for the masses” type thing it’s just for site owners and two rather basic things.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      The contributors graph looks fun: https://github.com/privacyportal/privacy-kit/graphs/contributors

      It’s been “developed” for about a week.

      The repo itself is a little beyond me, most of it seems to be just a website (web app), but I notice this: https://github.com/privacyportal/privacy-kit/blob/production/package.json which seems to pull in something called privacy-kit-*.js from some npm repo I guess?

      Where is the source, where is the code?

      • theRealDonaldDuck@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        We like the skepticism. 😀 Hope the following clarifies things a bit:

        1. The repo contains the privacy-kit library code under the /src directory.
        2. The website files in the repo are test files used by contributors to test the library.
        3. The code from the repo is packaged into an npm library as mention in the README.md.
        4. The privacy-kit-*.js are the built library assets that you can build by running npm run build.

        Feel free to ask any questions for more clarification. Also the library is tiny it’s designed to have zero dependencies and no impact on website performance.

    • theRealDonaldDuck@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      We usually don’t trust new services either but here are a few points that might address your concerns:

      • The privacy-kit library was just announced yesterday. There are no external contributors yet but it’s open source and anyone is welcome to help make it better.

      • “for the masses” means that it doesn’t require high technical skills and anyone can include it to their website. This is one of our goals: democratizing online privacy.

      • Our website is simple on purpose. We aim to keep it this way. We build everything from scratch to reduce external dependencies to the strict minimum.

      • We’re also contributors to Lemmy and other select FOSS projects: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4881