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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Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ? (privacytests.org)

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

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https://privacytests.org rate Brave as the best browser.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

almost nobody does that though. And after a certain amount of time even power users are like "yeah. f* it". So default settings ARE important imo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They are, but when you explicitly have to go through the options you probably won't select the weaker ones.