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About Advertisements on the {{project_name_long}} Website
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Transparency.
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Readers may have noticed that each documentation chapter has several advertisements in the footer. To remove all doubt, advertisements do not:
* result in monetary compensation for the {{project_name_short}} project;
* influence the direction of {{project_name_short}} development; or
* lead to changes in {{project_name_short}} software or website choices (apart from the advertisement itself).
The present list of advertisements includes:
* Evolution Host: provides system administration advice for the {{project_clearnet}}
website.
The past list of advertisements includes:
* Fosshost: fosshost.org
was a non-profit organization that provided hosting services to the open source community. Fosshost provided a stage server for {{Kicksecure}}.
* Jobble: link exchange. It showed advertisements for {{project_name_short}} for related searches.
* Search engines (YaCy | Qwant | ecosia | MetaGer | peekier): This is a voluntary listing by {{project_name_short}} and no discussions have occurred with any of these services. Also see [https://forums.whonix.org/t/local-browser-homepage-for-tor-browser-in-whonix/347/101 this forum post].
Any future changes will be documented on this page.
= Guidelines for Advertising on {{project_clearnet}} =
* no targeted ads
* no tracking
* no spying
* no loading of web content from third party pages
* just text and images
* advertisements marked as advertisements
* no JavaScript
= Affiliate Policy =
This is only a consideration for a hypothetical future situation. Example: a VPN provider would offer sponsorship if {{project_name_short}} would provide a wizard for easily setting up VPN [trial] accounts.
* non-default option
* non-persuasive option
* installing only Freedom Software by default (no non-Free, proprietary, nagware)
* transparency about the partnership
* maybe publishing scale of sponsorship (sum)
* sticking to fair, nuanced, intellectually honest option about pros and cons
** https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_Of_Tor_with_CGI_Proxies,_Proxy_Chains,_and_VPN_Services#Comparison
** https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN
** https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Features#VPN_.2F_Tunnel_support
* no marketing lies
* wizard for easily setting up [trial] accounts
* easily replaceable with other vendors
= See Also =
* [[Official Online Profiles|Official {{project_name_short}} Online Profiles and Social Media]]
= Footnotes =
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