Privacy

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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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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
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Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)

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

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[–] trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So more for privacy than security, so it would make sense to use a VPN depending on your threat model I suppose, or how much you care.

[–] neosheo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's more for privacy. Still you can just have it always on and it really wont cause many issues except for sites that block vpns.