Privacy

50,055 readers

5,701 active

1,002 users here now

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.

Some Rules

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
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

moderators

This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED] (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TriLinder@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

142 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works

An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rektifier@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

I'm fine with this. Instances shouldn't proxy or cache images because it opens instance owners to a lot more liability than text. A client side setting to not load images in comments by default is better.

permalink

fedilink

source

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] FancyFeaster@lemmy.fail 7 points 3 years ago

Each instance stores post thumbnails locally even if the post was on another server. It actually takes up quite a bit of hdd space.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

lemmy:	0.19.20
mlmym (mschae):	26.3.3