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
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
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Reddit shadow banned and banned every new account I tried with a VPN. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.

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[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, I am realizing that too. A side note, no way I would use apps like that on my actual phone. Using the cell towers, they can find out right where you are, I'm guessing.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your phone, display size, apps installed, language, android build version etc etc make your anonynouse device unique when they query the browser.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

All that meta info would need to be spoofed. Even spoofing the 80%, rather than all, might be enough.