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
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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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I imagine that instead of beating TLS, state actors work with Cloudflare and the other CDNs who terminate the connection to listen in. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lntl@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I was orginally going to post to c/showerthoughts.... but then I thought it might fit in better here.

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cloudflare also forces you to enable javascript, so allowing them to fingerprint and de-anonymize you

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

i was aware of this, but didn't think much of it because everyone's doing this, but i switched to jshelter a week ago and 👏 every 👏 single 👏 site 👏 forces me to disable it to use it besides -- even the catgirl protecting lemmy.