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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.

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READ THE TOS! lol (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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In order to protect your privacy even more efficiently, you need to do something very simple whenever using an online service or a software. Something that most people fail to do is reading the terms of service, also known as a TOS, from companies or developers' software. This usually will tell you straight up whether they're spying on you, selling your data, or using it to sell ads. This will solve a lot of problems with people not realizing that some software is actually the opposite of privacy, but they keep using it thinking it enhances their privacy.

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

OP just deflecting and ignoring... here's the deal about privacy:

If the company doesn't advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data: Don't waste time with the ToS.
They are saving logs and selling your data.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data, but it's American: Don't waste time with the ToS.
The government can legally force them into cooperation while placing them under a gag order.

If the company advertise itself for not saving logs or selling your data and it's not American: Read the ToS if you want, but it's not important.
You will hardly find anything that is not open source recommended for privacy. Read independent code review of the software and third party audits of the company.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

You will hardly find anything that is not open source recommended for privacy. Read independent code review of the software and third party audits of the company.

Yes, and IMHO a good trick to shortcut that is F-Droid. They spend a lot of resources to do all that cf https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/