Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
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Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
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- r/Privacy
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I’m from the same Lemmy instance monero.town (technically a mod?) and can see your point. Initially I was vocal about perceived link-spamming, advertising this SimplifiedPrivacy thing; at least a few users there were/are feeling the same way, as you can see e.g. here. So please don’t lump crypto (esp. Monero) users as a single kind of people.
Like @[email protected] pointed out, some of info provided by this user (ShadowRebel) can be useful. Perhaps some people prefer a video to text. Monero users tend to respect freedom (of speech) and advertisement is not forbidden in Monero.town anyway. Perhaps you can understand that this does not mean “the cryptocurrency people” are the same.
I was expecting childish reactions when I shared this post. But that doesn't matter, if only one user has benefited from it, it was well worth it.
@ride I know the background: this info could be very useful, and you commented, “Even if not directly Monero-related, this draws attention to the community when such contributions come from here.”
The problem is, [email protected] has a different set of rules than Monero.town does, explicitly stating:
Hence, as you can see in https://monero.town/post/1085883 (you double-posted the same thing, too), a negative comment about this:
@[email protected] is not “childish”, even stating “it is informative.” But even if this post may be useful, we should follow the rules of [email protected] when (cross-)posting here; otherwise, Monero.town may look bad.
Yes, thanks for the clarification.
How was that an ad? What exactly did you think was being advertised?
And some of us quite like tutorials as they tend explain not just what to do but why it's being done.
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