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Privacy

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.

Some Rules

  • 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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  • How does this even make sense?

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    How does this even make sense? The criminals would just move to another platform like SimpleX or use a VPN. Next move (and not just from Sweden): make the use of a VPN (and any fully encrypted service) illegal for the average citizen—who needs a backdoor when the law makes it a crime to simply use full E2EE? Let those be used with trust by the army, the press, organizations and people like that just not by common people that should have no privacy at all. Politician incompetency and dishonesty will finish to ruin what little of Europe remains and what the word democracy was supposed to mean (which is not to consider your citizen like clueless children that can't understand shit and that can't be trusted). But in exchange of ruining that they will get some more power and/or money, so that's fine I suppose.
  • Startpage or DuckDuckGo

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    People don't like the idea of paying for stuff they're used to getting for free Privacy Guides does not include Kagi in their recommendations because an account is required in order to search, despite it being against their privacy policy to log, and despite the fact that they allow "no-log" VPNs, messaging apps, etc. which all require accounts. They're starting to soften to Kagi with their new Privacy Pass feature, however they seem hung up on the fact you need an account to generate private tokens. Accounts can be made with burner emails and paid with crypto. Kagi leadership has had some controversial opinions on search censorship (they're fairly blanket opposed to it) and other social issue in the past In addition to search, Kagi offers AI tools, which is a turn-off for a lot of people To me, none of these things are deal breakers, but some folks are eager for an excuse to complain.
  • Oh how quickly them western values collapse.

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  • Briar has entered the chat

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  • Sweden… more like snitchden… amirite?

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    https://www.politico.eu/article/german-election-results-2025-friedrich-merz-cdu-europe/
  • don’t kink shame

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  • first, why do you want to replace Signal?

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    I am pretty sure that if asked, the serverside protections can be circumvented No, they literally cannot. The entire protocol is open sourced and has been audited many times over. One of the fundamental things you assume when designing a cryptosystem is that the communication link between two parties is monitored. The server mostly exists as a tool to frustrate efforts by attackers that have network dominance (i.e. secret police in oppressive regimes) by not allowing signals intelligence to extract a social graph. All this hypothetical attacker can see is that everyone talks to a server so they can't know which two people are communicating. The previous iteration, TextSecure, used SMS. Your cellular provider could easily know WHO you were talking to and WHEN each message was sent. So SMS was replaced with a server and the protocol was amended so that even the server has no way of gaining access to that information. The sealed sender feature is something that the client does. It was best effort because, at the time, they still supported older clients and needed backwards compatibility. This is no longer the case.
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  • Black bloc isn't just for demos.

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  • Nothing new, ordinary Chinese phone as many.

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    You're small minded tribalism is why your opinion doesn't matter and you'll add very little value to the planet. Be they maga, Israeli, Palestinan, Sudanese, American. I want justice and peace for all. You're fighting about what instance peoples are. We are not the same...have you considered going outside and talking to humans outside? No instances there lmfao
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    I wonder too. It has to be them pushing the update through the app itself. I got another update notif. Last night. I checked both stores and no updates there. This must be it! Just seemed super odd at first.
  • BraxOS fails to include a libre software license text file.

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  • Session is an Australian conpany afaik.

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  • You can easily re-roll usernames in Signal, and profiles in SimpleX.

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  • I never trusted that brax guy

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    Click the Home icon Click the far right of the blue start button and enable Firewall (enables all 3 options) Click Configure > Proxy > Setup Wireguard Using the + icon, import your Wireguard config and enable it Go back to Settings > DNS > System DNS Go back to Home and enable RethinkDNS Open Android Settings > Netowork & Internet > Private DNS (make sure it's set to Automatic) This will tell Android (and RethinkDNS) to scoop your Wireguard DNS.
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