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Comment by thaliaarchi | Hacker News Reader

Is Redact affiliated with the EFF? The prominent “Support the EFF” banner suggests so, but the FAQ makes no mention.

No, we just believe in the mission of privacy and they seem like the biggest supporters in the business. They paved the road we now walk upon, so its due to give them something back.

*edit- Seeing comments below, I can see the issues. We will remove the 'Support the EFF' banner for now until we can do it in a better manner.

You may want to make that clear. I took that to mean this was EFF sanctioned, and that changed how I was going to vet this before I used it. That said, I love this project.

I support this suggestion very strongly. Currently, it really does seem like the service is affiliated with the EFF, which is misleading.

Keeping the current design has at least two drawbacks.

- First, it makes you seem shady. After realizing that you are probably not affiliated with the EFF, I became very suspicious of the service, especially since it is closed-source.

- Second, there might be legal ramifications of "pretending" to be affiliated with the EFF.

If the banner wasn't there, I would have most likely already downloaded and started using Redact for my personal research project. It looks like a great product!

Looks like the developers took the suggestion. As of now the EFF banner is off the site, that's a really good move to keep up a trustworthy image!

We did, Im just not sure how to show our support for the EFF without it being misconstrued. A tiny link in the footer does very little to drive traffic to the EFF, which was the goal of the prominent position. Without donations EFF doesnt exist and thats bad news for all privacy startups.

Maybe put a banner at the bottom which says something like "Redact supports the EFF but is not affiliated with them. We encourage you to donate to open source privacy software at this link: <Link to EFF>"

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