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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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10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned? (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also a good conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227166

EDIT: Changed the link to an archive.org version.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot changed. Facebook and most sites defaulted to http back then. Now most sites only do https, and even DNS encryption has made great strides.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https is more about security than privacy