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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.

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submitted 3 years ago by sonidobonito@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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... Installed Graphene OS and deleted my Google account. May not seem like a big deal to some, but it was a project long in the making. Decoupling from cloud services / apps that are dependant on GAPPS is surprisingly difficult. It felt really good to delete my account in the end.

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[–] obsolete29@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Congratulations! I hope to join you soon! Biggest thing blocking me ATM is YouTube. Not only do I follow some content creators but I have some videos that I want to download and host some other way. Peertube feels like a hard thing to self host.

[–] sonidobonito@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yeah, I feel ya there. I may look into PeerTube myself soon. I used to be a content creator and would like to get back into it eventually. I wish you luck!

[–] PandaCoderPL@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

If you need YouTube but want to avoid Google tracking then try using Piped - it's good alternative to Invidious because it's using proxy by default.