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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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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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"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 14 hours ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] anguo@piefed.ca 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't do any of those things, because my devices block them before they ever reach me.

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Yep. One must move beyond an "I hate you and I hope you die" relationship with ads, to a "I don't think about you at all" relationship with ads. Regardless of how many fits Google throws about ublock, one can always do VPN/DNS type filtering. I've honestly almost forgotten ads exist.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

There's some tech blog/news site (can't recall the name right now) that tries to shame me into turning off my ad blocker and viewing their ads with an extra pop up

"Hey! We noticed your browser isn't displaying ads. Can you..."

HAHA NO

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

What do you mean fits about ublock?

I had to download it off the internet and not the play store on both my phone and computer, but it worked, still works great, I see about zero ads and it blocks a lot of pages entirely.