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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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Are these (in desc) browser extensions safe? and are there any safe, free opensource vpn extension for the browser? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Extensions: Ad Block Plus, Ad Guard, FastForward, Skip Redirect, Firefox Translations, Youtube NonStop, AdBlocker for YouTube, Cookie Autodelete, Search by Image.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remove every "AdBlocker" and install a real one, aka uBlock Origin. AdGuard is definitely a good extension but imo uBlock Origin is the way to go and using multiple have been proven to harm blocking capabilities.