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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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You should stop using Meta (Facebook) products at all costs. (minddump-5f4.pages.dev)

submitted 3 days ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I made a minimal website using Hugo just for writing blogs so I don't have to post them in groups as posts. Hope it's fine here. This is not a promotion. No tracking links either.

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[–] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I gave up Facebook way before cigarettes… No but seriously it does kinda suck because I do have my buddies numbers and text/call em but I’m a zoomer & we grew up in the internet age.

Even millennials / Gen X are planning family gatherings, BBQs/hangouts, even underground punk rock shows are just private Facebook groups now. Nobody really hands out zines or posts fliers around anymore for word of mouth, why would you?

Anyone who would already wants to go heard about it on Facebook. The posters were made online, never printed, posted to Instagram and FB. Kinda makes it easy to miss stuff, especially if it’s like the only way your dad or the new friend you made contacts the world or whatever. I still would never go back, tho. Just go out and talk to people in person lol & then let other people tell you about their crazy facebook posts later lol it’s more fun that way!!

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WhatsApp is probably the harder Meta app to quit.

I've had plenty of people say "But that's different, it's E2EE", but it's a closed-source black box that almost certainly has a backdoor built in already.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Show them this

https://gizmodo.com/trump-admin-closes-investigation-into-alleged-backdoor-for-whatsapp-report-2000751760

It's E2E but there's a 3rd E. And they send material to subcons for AI labelling, so most likely low wages countries with sketchy checks.