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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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Github vs. Email Aliases (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by mrshy@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.

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[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

GitHub: A place to host open source code!*

*If you do what we want you to do

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Discord locks my account everytime I join a server

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Are you using 2FA ? With some services (Not Discord but others) I found out that when 2FA is enabled I will not have to suffer endless amount of CAPTCHAs and what not.

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