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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PSA: Anyone can tell if you are using WhatsApp on your computer (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by clot27@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

This is a security feature to let you know that the sender may be an imposter, right? Like matrix's verified sessions, if my friend gets a new phone or pc it's unverified and I have to verify the new session through another means, like in person or phone.