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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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Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live (uk.pcmag.com)

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

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This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If general computers are outlawed, only outlaws will have general computers.

I use an open source browser with a hardware TAN generator for banking. I pay with an NFC card. All the websites I care about work with open standards. Fuck the rest. I am perfectly able to run my own email servers. If online shopping requres proprietary bullshit they lose me as a customer. My bills are direct debit. No, there are no basic and requred civic functions that must happen online. I simply walk or go there to do that in person.

I am already frequently blocked by Cloudflare because I use an always on VPN and only open source tooling. I simply cease to use such services.

You are correct that the proper solution to fascism is to go away or to kill them.

[–] angband@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Besides, less facebook means more sanity. Nothing real happens in 99% of cyberspace.

Edit: so, my bank freaks out if I vpn through Santiago, lemmy.world freaks out if I vpn through Brussels.