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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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privacy seems interesting, i guess I'll see what's it about didn't really think of it much when i moved from Canada to the eu (ttrpg.network)

submitted 11 months ago by pixta_test_trowaway@ttrpg.network to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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you can see this is a throwaway account, you likely won't get replies. btw i recently switched from edge to arc browser since i got an invite somehow (am using startpage as my search engine)

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

what

[–] cerement 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Startpage was bought out by advertising company System1

EDIT
Qwant seems decent
a lot of claims Duckduckgo has morphed into being a frontend for Bing
SearXNG (updated replacement for SearX) gets good reviews, but have to be prepared to hop instances as Google blocks them
- Random SearX Redirector
Kagi is a subscription service that people seem to love

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

system1 didn't do much they didn't even change the search engine of waterfox to Startpage

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Very cool blog

[–] pixta_test_trowaway@ttrpg.network 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

when i checked YouTube i found mental outlaw in my recommendations, he seems like a good starting base.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Enjoy exploring! Hope you find it to be a good experience

Eventually you might find that you're coming back to the PrivacyGuides.org page, that's what most people recommend these days as a starting point for recommended tools. There are a lot of companies out there advertising privacy and security without actually PROVIDING privacy and security. It's becoming a new buzzword

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

You don't have to take my word for it though, just keep exploring and learning :)

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

PrivacyGuides recommends Brave...

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The specific breakdown was as follows

We recommend Mullvad Browser if you are focused on strong privacy protections and anti-fingerprinting out of the box, Firefox for casual internet browsers looking for a good alternative to Google Chrome, and Brave if you need Chromium browser compatibility.

So I think they only recommend Brave for those that need Chromium

For mobile browsers, I don't quite understand the differences between each. I personally use Mull when I need it, but Brave might be better on Mobile still?