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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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    Meta announces always online DRM for all existing and future Quest VR devices

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    Meta's drm is ass if this has existed for years. You can play pirated games like eleven table tennis online and walkabaout mini golf online
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    What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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    I just came across this article which for people who are into self hosting can take a look and participate. It's basically a tool that generating never ending web pages with non sense that load slow (but not too slow the AI tools move on) to slow down and thus cost them more to scrape the internet if enough people are doing it. You can also hide it in a way that legit user would never see this on your site: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/ https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
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    Why I support privacy by Vitalik Buterin

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    Yes! His thoughts are very organized and easy to understand. He really gets his points across and helps people understand the need for privacy especially in current time where our information can be scrapped without us noticing. It's just his personal blog post but he structured it better than many people's speeches.
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    Stumbled upon this in the France community when browsing Local. Needs to be shared wider.

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    -Wayne Gretzky
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    Connecting AirPods to GrapheneOS?

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    Awesome!
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    (iPhones) The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

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    This whole thing blew up and they backed down.
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    Traveling internationally (question)

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    Jesus Christ!
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    Grant funding for helping people get away from big tech

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    I've been thinking of creating a free class to go along with my (also free) book DISENGAGE: Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim Your Life from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech...which seems to mesh nicely with what you're doing...except I'm US-based. If you get your nonprofit started, let me know if you might be interested in hosting the class! I planned for weekly readings/assignments, a group chat, and maybe weekly formalized chats or cslls.
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    DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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    I'm a software developer, and I tell people on the daily you need to protect your data. I'm peeling back the tech-oligarchies hold on me by getting rid of Google and the other big boys. I'm fortunate I can spin up SMTP server (MailCow) and cloud storage (NextCloud) using free and open source software (FOSS). But I encourage others to do the same if they can. SMTP is a tough nut to crack, maintaining servers is also a bit of a task. But any technologist that knows web servers (Docker, VM) and DNS can set up shit using elest.io/managed-services
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    I literally only use Windows for video games these days and Steam OS is looking better and better for that.

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    Seems like, to have the exact same thing, you need to is set this up. https://github.com/Grimish-ng/steam-gamescope-guide But idk what my brain really wants. It still feels like the Steam Deck has less issues with ganescope than some people on their hardware. Maybe I also have read that stuttering is solved when using a tty instead of Desktop to put Gamescope on.
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    MEGA is now Hungary-based? What?

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    I didnt mention politics anywhere, it was your conclusion from this i just missread it and thought it was funny
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    Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays?

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    Yeah I agree. I'd love to get rid of maps, but location history is just way too valuable to give up, and I couldn't find anybody else who does it. I also really like navigation that's responsive to current traffic levels. Obviously even if someone else provided that, them having fewer users would mean it's not going to be very effective, but I'd be willing to switch to someone else who at least was attempting to do that, even if their userbase wasn't there yet. Right now though...nobody that I could find even tries to do either of those crucial features.
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    The German university KIT provides almost 30 free and open-source privacy-friendly Android apps. Example: A QR Scanner

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    Not to be too pedantic but those aren't alternatives to Android; they're simply custom Android ROMs as alternatives to stock ROMs. GrapheneOS is available for the older pixels. If you can get a Pixel 7 or 8 series phone at a good deal then there's no better Android than GrapheneOS. They take security seriously. I equate GrapheneOS to be the Qubes of the Android world
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    how private are RSS feeds?

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    jeez I wasn't reading very carefully. I read that as "Only the RSS reader"
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    Is the BraX3 from braxtech.net a trustworthy investment?

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    That's why I also suggested a Samsung phone.
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    Listen, telling other members of a privacy community on lemmy to "just switch to Linux bro" is an enormous waste of time.

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    The lack of self-awareness in this comment is depressing
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    Using them.

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    Clicking the link should not say anything special when you land on the page (which is rather dumb) but once you create your account you should get double the base free storage (20 instead of 10). I don't recall them announcing any change in that policy.
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    How would you write a journal/diary with the adversaries being both the people you live with AND your government?

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    Obsidian stored in Veracrypt. Bonus if you get security keys for veracrypt, either as piv cards or using long passwords only on the key. Standard notes doesn’t require an email. Just make a private username and password. Protonmail and mailbox.org support pgp. Protonmail pgp is quantum resistant. Grab a public key and write emails to a free account. Honestly though, get a fire resistant bag or safe and a notebook. No bit rot. No hacking.
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    [YouTube Alternatives] Here is a list of video platforms, that I never see mentioned.

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    On Nebula, the channel also gets a certain share of the revenue if you watch the video on that platform instead of on YT. Some channels actually publish their videos early on Nbula, while other channels make exclusive videos too. Either way, avoiding YT, and favoring other platforms benefits everyone.
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    A practical guide for de-googling and canceling data from the Internet

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    If you recommend Firefox, i think in the context of privacy / data hoarding, i think it is best to recommend Librewolf too.