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

submitted 1 day ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Maybe there's a technical difference, but at least in Brazil, publicidade and propaganda are widely used as synonyms

It is uncommon to call propaganda (in the political sense) publicidade, so maybe in popular conversations this makes publicidade a kind of propaganda, and not the other way around.