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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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Circles: a privacy-first social app for connecting with people you actually know (peertube.futo.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TIL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lots of things aren't even possible to be encrypted on matrix, such as emoji reactions. Those are always sent in clear text.

...just wait till someone is convicted for arson because the police AI dragnet bots flagged you as guilty because you left a "fire" emoji at the wrong time