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
Be nice :)

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"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is the harm to small bloggers and creators that need ads to survive.

I recommend routing your browser around your router ad block by changing its DNS then using uBlock Origin to whitelist the sites you want to support. You can block third party cookies and fingerprinting to mitigate the tracking.

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 1 points 11 hours ago

I would much rather do direct support. Conveniently, I also lose so much respect for people that run ads that I don't want to support them. OTOH, I spend way more on patreon and bandcamp than I would on subscription services.