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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How am I supposed to go back? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How can I go back to using Google Drive, Gmail, downloading the WhatsApp application, trusting proprietary software in general?

How can I go back to convenience knowing what I know now? Constantly aware that I'm trading my privacy and my data for convenience? Why must this road be so arduous?

Genuinely struggling with this, how do you all manage? Do you just accept it and use this stuff trying to minimize how much information on yourself you give away? Or have you resigned to self-hosted email and wood cabins (unable to fully interface with payment systems, government bureaucracy, modern technology)?

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[–] MasterBlaster 1 points 9 hours ago

Some things one has to be willing to forgo. I grew up before all this crap happened, so i just never let it infiltrate my world too much.

Still, it comes at a cost that increasingly includes Social isolation. Very few give a rats ass about privacy. They're blissfully clueless and don't see the point of doing all the extra work. After all they 'have nothing to hide". (Aren't they adorable?).

Come to grips with the fact most people are both stupid, and sheep. Seek the ones who have some clue of what is going on not just around them, but in the rest of the world.