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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On SimpeLogin, How do I get past this when creating aliases? I waited 30 mins and it still shows (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First generation VPN users effectively ruined it for current-gen users who use VPNs for everything now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

it's not a "gen" thing. They are still used by bots and scammers and pirates and and well-meaning n00bs who unknowingly abuse the service. They're just also used for privacy now.