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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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Bitwarden Privacy Software Stack Survey (forms.bitwarden.com)

submitted 9 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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From their Masto acct:

"It’s almost #DataPrivacyWeek - vote now for your favorite data privacy tools in this 1-minute survey! "

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[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

VPNs are very effective because they increase the cost of that kind of datasurvillenace of you enough to make it not worth it.

Not really, because you left out a huge asterisk. They are only effective after you have implemented a bunch of other methods to deal with cookies, tracking scripts, finger printing etc.

A vpn on it's own doesn't do shit if you don't auto wipe your cookies after every session for example. Which vpn marketing conveniently forgets to tell you