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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
Don't promote proprietary software
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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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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a huge difference between streaming games and streaming PowerPoint slideshows

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Obviously, yes. Whats your point?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Telling Discord users to switch to Matrix because "it works like a charm" is incorrect, considering how Discord is used.

"It's tolerable if you can put up with the low bit rate and high latency" is more accurate.