this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
1298 points (94.7% liked)
Privacy
49221 readers
465 users here now
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 :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
lol
Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Reminder that they already responded
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible
Doesn't stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.
Wouldn't it be sick if y'all just responded on voting day?
Here's the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.
You do realise that Labour were voted in as the progressive alternative on a bunch of pretty progressive campaign pledges right? The Online Safety Act and treating peaceful protesters as terrorists certainly weren't what people voted for.
load more comments
(5 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It's just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they've pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn't matter because it's not for you.
load more comments
(1 replies)
A huge petition that undermines the government’s democratic mandate is never a bad thing, even if they responded.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
load more comments
(27 replies)
The internet's inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.
Is this a joke?
This timeline? Yes
You mean the censorship law was woefully ill-conceived and won't do anything they claim it is supposed to do? Leay it's definitely a joke, just not the type you're asking about.
load more comments
(4 replies)
You can on Linux just saying
It's like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
load more comments
(15 replies)
Makes sense, because with the nvidia graphics card you could generate AI porn.
You could generate AI porn on a 6502; I don’t see Commodore or Atari pulling this crap.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
It's in the name... can't access graphic content without ID, can we? /s
On a more serious note, what about AMD graphics cards?
Zoomers need to learn they don't need to use Nvidia's app for this. Just download the driver directly.
at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call it their "great firewall"
Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
load more comments
(8 replies)
How the fuck does this protect kids? Adjusting graphics settings? Why not bar them from adjusting volume while they're at it.
Some of those graphics might be showing boobies. Obviously this must be regulated.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Relevant:
As one of the first Baby Boomers, it's somewhat surrealistic for me to proof that I'm old enough to access an fucking web page.
As a millennial, it, too, is insane.
Which begs the question: who thinks this is a needed thing and a good idea? Who is pushing this agenda?
somebody in another post a few days ago suggested that this was about gaining control of the media narrative by gradually locking down parts of the internet. The idea being that today it's adult content but tomorrow its about disagreeable narratives on YouTube, TikTok, and other secondary sources of Information.
-I'd think it were a stretch of the imagination but it was shown that the motives for trying to ban TikTok (in the U.S.) were the narratives shared on the platform about Israel's ongoing genocide.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(15 replies)
This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
load more comments
(11 replies)
Not adjusting settings, but definitely auto updates which require a login and they've been adding more and more things that require an account so they can track you.
All of these people are future linux enjoyers, they just don't know it yet.
The trend has accelerated this year, corpos are data mining and they want to court proof data against you.
It has been at least 10 years coming but it is now very clear for what they are going for here.
Between Israeli genocide and pedos within the power structure, the anti resime sentiment is growing too strong and it seems for once, fake news can't change the narrative.
We are heading into the future where we won't be able to criticize genocide or pedophiles.
load more comments
(5 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
I have been out of the loop for a while so please excuse my question: Is it really necessary nowadays to let NVIDIA software connect to the internet to enter/change the graphic card settings? Years ago they only had this bullshit tool for looking up pre-made settings and an update agent, but all you had to do was to not install both when running the driver setup. I can't even remember the name of them, deselecting this crap became like muscle memory. Did NVIDIA really change that in the meantime?
view more: next ›