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
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how to download anonymously? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lemmingsareawesome@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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idk if someone already asked i cant sreach good bc my english is bad

threat moodel: surveillance captialism/policing doxxers, home and public network, isp,

i hate fingerprinting the most :enraged_face:

i love not having my ids connect to each other

i want to

**download videos/music/books/games (mostly pirated) (AND PLAY THEM)

moreno

chat/scroll normal websites (the ones aervage people use)

use javascript (every site wants it)

email encrypted**

tor browser is too slow is mullvad and vpn ok?

i cant post to r/privacy my account isnt old enough ((((

other privacy baed subreddits downvote bc of my bad spelling

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

rentry.co/megathread is a good place for piracy tools.

Use an adblocker (preferably uBlock Origin on Firefox)

Use a password manager to make sure you don't use the same password on multiple websites, One leak could doom all your passwords.

Make use of temporary mail providers on sites you're creating an account once and are likely never visiting again.

For email encryption, use PGP.

VPN is perfectly fine; but know its purpose. It's purpose is to mask your location data; but is not required if your sole concern is piracy and your isp doesn't send notices for torrent downloads. Turning it on does not make you any more safer to malware, which is a common misconception

[–] lemmingsareawesome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

thank u