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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
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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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Update: I made a spreadsheet that ranks messaging apps for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been working hard on the privacy spreadsheet, which has been in development for over 150 hours now. Its been updated, and now includes more messaging apps and more data, with a better format. I'm still working on the sidebar issue, if anyone knows how to fix it, here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/du82/privacyspreadsheet.com

I'm aiming to make this the most valuable resource for privacy, beyond messaging as well, but one thing at a time.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Still very biased towards Matrix Vs XMPP when it comes to encryption. If it is "provider specific" for XMPP it should be also "provider specific" for Matrix... or rather in 99% of the cases it is not "provider specific" at all but available and enabled by default for both. That there are a few non-compliant server+client combinations is just a result of an open-source and decentralized network.

Edit: same for the "what apps can hand over to police section", which is also highly provider specific as it doesn't really concern the "app" but rather the server (which can be self-hosted).