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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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A private, ad-free, no-login news reader — figured this community would appreciate the ethos. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by DiscoDan_IN_NZ@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Posting here because the whole reason Compass exists lines up with why a lot of you are on Lemmy: no ads, no tracking, no account, no Big Tech middleman.

It's a news aggregator that pulls public RSS/Atom feeds and opens articles in a built-in reader that strips out the scripts, ad slots and tracking pixels before rendering. Everything — your feeds, saved stories, settings — lives on your device. The app collects nothing.

Android, closed testing right now. If the ethos resonates and you'd like to test, DM me the email on your Play account and I'll add you. Feedback from people who actually care about this stuff is worth more than a hundred casual installs.

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[–] DiscoDan_IN_NZ@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Fair question! Right now it's Play Store closed testing only, so no F-Droid or direct APK just yet. That's purely a "still in testing" thing, not a permanent choice. Both are on my radar though: once it's stable I'd like to offer a direct APK for folks who don't do Play Store, and F-Droid is a natural fit given the app's whole ethos (no ads, no trackers, nothing phoning home). F-Droid takes a bit more work — the build has to be fully open-source and reproducible — so it's a "when I get there" rather than "next week," but it's genuinely the direction I want to go. If you'd rather wait for an APK than use the Play Store, totally understand — drop a follow and I'll post when there's one available. Appreciate you asking. 🧭