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.

Some Rules

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
Be nice :)

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submitted 1 year ago by tourist@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I fucking hate the modern web

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[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for commenting and asking the questions! You're never the only one wondering about these things but someone needs to actually dare to ask instead of just scrolling past!

https://privacyguides.org is an amazing resource, often with links to further explanations of concepts.