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
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if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG" (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ColdWater@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don't know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Companies are definitely selling your data. Use a VPN.

[–] Derp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A VPN will not save you, they are easily worse for privacy in terms of user tracking. It centralises your entire web traffic in a single place for the VPN provider to track (and potentially sell).

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You either trust the ISP or a VPN. Its a tool not a blanket of protection. Opsec and knowing how to move is most important.

[–] notprogrammer@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

But you pay more for what is essentially the same with a VPN. You have to buy a VPN subscription on top of your internet subscription, get less speed because your internet traffic is being routed through a different country and get no benefit to privacy. The only use case for a VPN is when you have to bypass georestrictions.