Privacy

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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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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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 :)

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submitted 2 days ago by Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66542364

No

I don't think so

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If you do move on, please take a minute to contact the Website or service and tell them why. If "we" just collectively walk out they might not understand why.

In order to make this easier I wrote a short template :

To whom it may concern, I tried visiting your Website today to use your service as it looked like what I need. Unfortunately the verification method you use requires a mobile phone verified by Google. This is not something I have nor do I want to due to privacy concern. Google being a large and powerful advertising company I do not trust them with my data. Do you have an alternative way for me to confirm that I am indeed not a bot that puts your service at risk?

Feel free to use this verbatim or adapt it and share back.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

One of the nice things about the Internet is that it has a way of routing around "damage." It's the end users who give it value and if they decide that a website doesn't offer any or is attempting to invade our privacy, then we just don't connect to it.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Indeed but I still recommend to be explicit when you re-route around.