PrivacyTools Recommends Ubuntu?

Sometime after June 2020, PrivacyTools.io quietly added Ubuntu to their recommended operating systems for privacy. Today I want to examine this situation and show why this is not a privacy-focused distro.
#PrivacyTools #Ubuntu #Privacy

Sources:
https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200610190539/https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/
https://snapcraft.io/docs/snap-store-metrics
https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy/snapcraft-nps
https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy

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