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Sorry, had a bit of time left today. Its more like 7 dudes, and their whole proposition is underwhelming TBH. Mostly gratuite statements against the ruling order. Half their website is a rant against the 'capitalist' competition. And the whole Christmas tree of doing good is exposed. But nothing really sticks:

- Simple and easy: wait until the product matures

- Open source: but no foundational governance, like Apache for example.

- Promise never to sell to investors, but nothing is in place to actually prevent that from happening. Note this common practice via a social enterprise.

- 45 kg reduction of CO2 compared to Google per average website(!): clear violation of EU law (2006/114/EG) in my opinion.

- They suggest to proxy their service to circumvent consumers who actively block traffic to plausible. This is OK, because they are good.[0]

[0] https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction




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