In September 2021, every active contributor unanimously agreed to move from PrivacyTools to work on another site: Privacy Guides. This decision was made because PrivacyTools’ founder and controller of the domain name had disappeared for an extended period of time and could not be contacted.
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I believe it's related to privacyguides.org. The team behind it lost contact with the domain owner of privacytools.io and to continue the project needed to create a new domain.
That particular article is full of misinformation, lies and water muddying. There are bald-faced lies within that post including all of the rubbish about the donations which I addressed here and here.