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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Did Lemmy.ml block Mullvad?!? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Octagon9561@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Can’t access Lemmy.ml anymore even after changing servers. Using ProtonVPN everything loads fine suddenly.

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

I always felt this was the paradox of privacy. Those of us who want privacy but try to contribute in a positive way to a community get caught in the crossfire when the same privacy tools are used by bad faith actors, sometimes individuals, sometimes even nation state influence ops.