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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to 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
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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

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I fucking hate the modern web

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't they already have what they need once you accept even if you delete them after?

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

There's not a lot to track in a single browser session. The privacy violation of tracking cookies is that they track what you're doing. If you set the privacyguides.org recommended settings in Firefox, Mullvad or Brave, the cross-site tracking should be blocked, but deleting them completely means the site will even have to do some advanced fingerprinting to even know "it's you" on the same site (if not using the same public IP, for example by using VPN, otherwise the IP will be recognised)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank's for sharing your knowledge! I'm in the beginning stages if this stuff, so it's helpful to have people like you & a community like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for commenting and asking the questions! You're never the only one wondering about these things but someone needs to actually dare to ask instead of just scrolling past!

https://privacyguides.org is an amazing resource, often with links to further explanations of concepts.