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.

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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
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Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcement talking about how they'll verify bots vs humans. Get ready for a wave of new users into the Fediverse pretty soon! (www.reddit.com)

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just to be clear... you think that the thing they've been actively doing for years, without any indication that there's any motivation to change, is why they're changing policy? 🤔 let's just say I'm not convinced

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They might be wanting to branch out to banning for protected reasons. They would need a handy excuse for that to avoid lawsuits.