Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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what got you into privacy in the first place? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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mine: i got recommended an mental outlaw video by YouTubes algorithm and that's where i got the pro privacy mindset

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Sure there's not much more to it. I think it was a Mac and I was trying to get around the administrative privileges.

On a similar note a different school used Windows but had a pretty good blocklist of sites that had anything to do with gaming or social media. I really wanted to browse some game review but didn't have another way because of how prohibitively expensive mobile data was at the time and ended up using Tor.

I never heard anything about it but it's funny to think I used it to read Metacritic reviews.