Following the instatement of regulatory measures to protect user privacy on the internet, coupled with outrageously bad PR regarding exploitative data collection practices, a new suite of... "privacy-focused" companies have rolled up to the tech scene.

The mission statements of these companies can be roughly sorted into the following categories:

1. privacy-focused alternatives: we're the good guys (we promise)
2. enterprise solutions for regulatory compliance: we'll help your ethically ambiguous company stay in the gray zone
3. user privacy protection services: we'll shield you from the big bad internet so you feel safer without changing anything

!! CAUTION !! All information below is purely speculative; it is intended to start a discussion about the lack of legal accountability within the tech industry. Unless otherwise stated, they are not facts.

Needless to say, our privacy "advocates" are (unfortunately but unsurprisingly) not our friends. To support these inflammatory claims, below are a few illuminating case studies.

privacy-focused alternative llm: venice.ai

privacy-focused alternative browser: brave

Brave Browser, "The browser that puts you first."

enterprise solutions for regulatory compliance: onetrust

user privacy protection: