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Are there any tools out there to compare Privacy Policies against each other? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hiya, just quickly wondering if anyone know about a good tool for comparing Privacy policies against each other? Im currently downloading each PP, then using self-hosted StirlingPDF to compare 1 on 1. However, I am looking for a more efficient tool, to compare multiple at the time, if there are any. Any tool that can handle multiple PDFs or HTML files and look at the differences between them kinda tool.

Appreciate any suggestions! 🕵️

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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Preferably line by line. Kind of like what Github does whenever you apply a commit, it will make a red line for what is removed and a green line for what is added code. I could look into LLMs though, but was hoping to find a quick n dirty tool to do the job.

[–] srwax@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like a diff checker?

https://www.diffchecker.com/

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty close to what im looking for actually, thanks for sharing! :)

[–] srwax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Glad to help!

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

After reading this, I'm thinking whether converting the PDFs to markdown and diffing them with a text difftool could work.

If you go this route, you may want to test with different diff algorithms. Git has multiple too, but I don't remember right now which I found to be the best

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip!

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Now that I'm at my computer, I was able to find the diff alg I was thinking about: it's histogram.

Here's an issue from gitea about when they changed the default git diff alg to this one: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/23255
And here's an article I have found earlier about some of the available git diff algorithms, and when they are too be used: https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of-the-git-diff-algorithms/

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

thanks very much for sharing ☘️