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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submitted 2 days ago by damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What the actual fuck. How can we trust any third party app ever? I guess we can’t.

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[–] mycatsays@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago

This.

And there are options that store the data locally on your phone rather than on a company server. This is the safest option.