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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Look ma, no proprietary apps! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish I had friends to use xmpp apps to text..I'm a whatsapp hostage

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I'm also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.