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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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Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"??? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

those can be open-source and selfhosted, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, absolutely! But that wasn't the point - rather that the spyware ones are popular for some reason, and thus can serve as a sad example of "low-hanging fruit to make an example of".

(TBH I don't get the need for a separate app in general, seems gimmicky, I just use a normal calendar)