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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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I learned about startpage recently. (www.startpage.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Brad@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?

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[–] thepierrezou@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

If you're not using a vpn on your vps, it's the same as using google directly. And if you're only using the vpn on your desktop it's even worse, since google will just tie you to your VPS ip.

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago

More than happy for google to tie my searches to the VPS' IP.

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