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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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It's a new life for me / and I'm feeling good. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 13 hours ago by muxika@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I had one google account that would be 19 years old by now

mine is that old and i rue the day i became so dependent on it; so i suppose it's a good thing that i can't tell exactly when that happened. lol

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

so compartmentalize it for just watching youtube. make a new profile on your privacy-friendly web browser just for that, load that profile up with all the annoyance blocking things you need and leave the main daily-driver profile free from google.

and don't use any of google's services on mobile if you can

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

i've already done the browser stuff you recommended leveraging container tabs on firefox.

but it doesn't seem matter: i recently discovered a facebook account that i forgotten i had created 15ish years ago tied to a secondary gmail account that i don't use anywhere besides firefox in private mode a dozen or so times per year at the most on a vpn. while using that facebook account, i got an event reminder for a party that i bought a ticket to a few weeks back using my somewhat recently created proton email address along with an almost equally recent debit card & bank account that i opened a few months ago.

it makes me think that server side tracking is now more effective than anything you can do at your end.