Privacy
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.
Some Rules
- 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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Doctorow wrote a blog post about this. It has the video and a transcription of it, so you can either watch it, read it or both.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
He also has a book on this topic, called Enshittification (I haven't read it, yet). I believe this talk was part of his book tour for the book. You can buy it DRM-free from his webpage: https://craphound.com/shop/
I didn't know Doctor Who was real I thought he was just from a show.
I just read the blog post on pluralistic.net, and wow, that was a good read. So much to unpack, I'm kinda speechless at the moment. Thanks for the link.
Hosted on YouTube.
Originally/additionally hosted on media.ccc.de
Is ccc.de down or something? I think reuploading video about enshittification to YouTube and posting it to a privacy-focused channel is exactly why we have a risk of losing privacy game.
You do have a point. TBH I only now realized that the video was posted from Doctorow's personal account, and without a link to the "original", which yeah, kinda weird.
The talk itself is still worth it (had the fortune of sitting in the audience), but probably a good idea to use the media.ccc.de link.
I fixed it :)
Great job! :D thank you!
Sorry, that was the only place I knew it existed at the time. The YT algorithm suggested it to me. I did remove the stupid tracking ID from it though.
Would it be bad taste to swap out the link with the one on ccc.de?
I think it is good to link to the original on ccc.de
Post both in the main post.