Privacy

31814 readers

337 users here now

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 :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

181

Those of you who are married, how do you go about privacy if your wife or husband does not care? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

99 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have always been curious about this. Did you get them to use other services or did they stubbornly refuse and you just accepted it? I am talking using Chrome, using Windows, using social media like Tiktok or Facebook or Instagram, etc. Bonus points if you have kids because that is even more work in the privacy realm

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SMS doesn't require you to join any specific service except the phone service you're already paying for.

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And OP was talking about not answering 'google chat'. Calling that SMS is comparing apples to potatoes.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is correct.

I could not have used SMS for most of the day since I worked on the top floor of a multi-level basement. I had wifi and a VPN though.

At the time I moved to signal, Google Message, or chat or whatever was being replaced with Allo and Duo and everyone was pretty un-jazzed about the whole thing.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but OP and the people they want to connect with don't have to force their choice of proprietary app into others when there's a universal solution that works for all phones.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm not super happy with Signal's level of openness, but I also wouldn't call it proprietary. It is open source and I could run my own server if I really wanted to, but that would just make it harder.

At the time we were moving from a walled garden to one of 3 encrypted OSS solutions, and I had all of them until we naturally coalesced on one.

SMS at the time didn't work due to not having cell service, and while we "have" RCS now to solve that issue, I don't know anyone who uses it.