Oh, I see. I thought they were just ill-conceived recommendations, but they're in fact bad recommendations with nefarious motives. This kind of stuff is really bad for people just getting into actively protecting their privacy......

It's definitely a "he said, she said" type of situation, but I found privacytools.io to be recommending some questionable services and companies (Nord VPN, ExpressVPN, etc). privacytools.io also pushes ads for certain companies, some of which are included in their recommendations. I just trust PG more because their selection process (slow as it may seem) is a lot more transparent and thorough.

I see.... Hopefully, it gets fixed soon. I like pretty much everything about Lemmy so far (light, not cluttered, no analytics trackers, etc), but this bug is annoying...

(fingers crossed)

Ironically, I had my front page opened in another tab. And when I created this post, it popped up on my front page as well XD