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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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Is it possible to make windows 10 more Private? (lemm.ee)

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

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i use windows because its the only os i know how to use. i want to get into things like torrenting because free stuff is cool but im afraid to. ive heard of tails os, a os that boots from a flash drive, is that worth checking out or should i stick with windows?

what is your advice? what should i do?

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[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Just... Don't torrent over Tor. It is not only slower, but also making it worse for other users.